SMS König
König was the first of four König-class dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy during World War I. Laid down in October 1911, the ship was launched on 1 March 1913. She was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 9 August 1914. Along with her three sister ships, Grosser Kurfürst, Markgraf, and Kronprinz, she took part in most of...