SMS Kaiserin was the third vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the Imperial German Navy. She was assigned to III Battle Squadron and later IV Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career. Kaiserin participated in all of the major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May and 1 June 1916. She later saw action during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917. The battleship was raised in May 1936 and subsequently broken up for scrap.
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SMS Kaiserin was the third vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the Imperial German Navy. The ship was equipped with ten 30. 5-centimeter guns in five twin turrets, and had a top speed of 22. 1 knots. She was assigned to III Battle Squadron and later IV Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career. Kaiserin participated in all of the major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May and 1 June 1916. She later saw action during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917. After Germany’s defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918, the Royal Navy interned Kaiserin and most of the capital ships in Scapa Flow. The ships were disarmed and reduced to skeleton crews while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of Versailles. On 21 June 1919, the commander of the interned fleet, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British would not be able to seize the ships. The battleship was raised in May 1936 and subsequently broken up for scrap. Her sister ships, Kaiser, Friedrich der Grosse, König Albert, and Prinzregent Luitpold, also served in the German Navy during the First and Second World Wars. She left Germany on 7 July 1913 for the annual cruise to Norway, but was recalled prematurely on 22 July because of rising international tensions.
Upon returning to Germany, Kaiserin steamed to Brunsbunsbüttel to join the Battle Squadron in December 1913. She died in a collision with a tanker in the North Sea in July 1914. She is buried in the Kiel Naval Cemetery. The name Kaiserin is a reference to the Kaiser family, who built the first Kaiser battleships in the early 19th century. The last Kaiser battleship to die in service was the battleship Kaiser, which was built in the 1920s and 1930s and was named after the Kaiser, who was the first German king. The Kaiser class was designed to replace the obsolete coastal defense ship Hagen, which had been decommissioned in the 1880s and replaced by a new battleship, the Kaiser. Kaiser was commissioned into the fleet on 13 May 1913 and joined the battle squadron on 14 May 1913. In May 1913, the ship was damaged by a fire that damaged her turbine engines, and she did not join the fleet until 13 December 2013. She had a maximum range of 7,900 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 12 knots and displaced a maximum of 27,000 metric tons at full load. Her main armored belt was 350 mm thick in the central portion, and was composed of Krupp cemented armor. Her main battery gun turrets were protected by 300 mm of KCA on the sides and faces. She also had five 50 cm torpedo tubes, all mounted in the hull; one in the bow, and the other four were on the broadside.
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