List of ships of the Imperial Navy

The Reich war flag in the version valid from 1903.

Ships of the Imperial Navy: Magdeburg , Berlin , Hohenzollern , Prussia , Great Elector and Rhineland (postcards from the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft , around 1910)

The list of ships of the Imperial Navy contains the warships of the German Imperial Navy (1871-1918), as far as they had a name. Units that only had a number as an identifier are kept in separate lists . Auxiliary ships that did not have a military command are not mentioned here.

The ships are sorted alphabetically according to the names they were given when they were launched or when they were taken over into the Navy. Later name changes, as long as they were made during service in the Imperial Navy, are noted under "whereabouts". A ship is not mentioned several times under different names.

The type of ship is given for each ship. These designations changed several times in the course of the history of the Imperial Navy. Thus, at the end of 1884, the ships previously known as smooth-deck corvettes were re-listed as cruiser corvettes , while the covered corvettes were henceforth called cruiser frigates . Another change took place in 1893, both the armored ships and the cruisers were divided into four classes each. A last reclassification took place in 1899 in connection with the passage of the First Fleet Act . The majority of the armored ships, with the exception of the armored ships of the IV class, which were run as coastal armored ships, were newly classified as ships of the line . The first class cruisers as well as part of the second class cruisers and the armored ships were combined to form the large cruiser type , the remaining second class cruisers, the III cruisers. and IV. Class as well as the Avisos formed the type of the small cruiser .

The exact reproduction of all type classifications for every ship is not possible within the scope of this list. The typifications of the years 1884 and 1899 are therefore used, with the older designation being given priority if a ship has passed through both schemes. For example, the units of the Sachsen class were classified as armored ships in 1884 and as ships of the line in 1899, but are referred to as armored ships in this list. The old type address is only used for ships that were decommissioned before or shortly after the reorganization in 1884 or were transferred to a separate group, for example the training ships . For the armored ships and cruisers built between 1893 and 1898 the names valid from 1899 are used. Exceptions are the ships of the Swallow - and Bussard class that partially built before 1893, originally as a vehicle IV class. Were called. This designation is not used in this list, the ships are instead named according to the classification of 1899 as small cruisers. Even with the units of the Albatross - and the hawk class which used 1884-1893 term is Kreuzer not applied because they were classified as gunboats both before and after this period.

Furthermore , the class to which the ship in question belongs is specified for each ship, unless it is a merchant ship that has been taken over . The classes are usually named after the first ship launched. Ships that do not belong to any class are marked as single ships .

The indication of the year of commissioning refers to the takeover in the Imperial Navy. In the case of ships that were built and put into service before the founding of the Reich , the information refers to the acceptance into the Reichsflotte , the Prussian Navy or the Navy of the North German Confederation . The civil commissioning of merchant ships, which were confiscated by the Imperial Navy and used as auxiliary ships, especially during the First World War , is not included in this list.

The indication of the displacement is given in metric tons . The weight of the fully equipped ship is given. In a few cases this has not yet been determined; Particularly for some of the auxiliary vessels, information is only available in gross register tons . Since this is a measure of space and not a weight specification, this information is not reproduced.

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Surname	Ship type	Ship class	Launch	Commissioning	Whereabouts	Displacement (in t )	image
Adeline Hugo Stinnes 3	Aircraft mother ship		1909	unknown	Delivered to Belgium, broken up in 1964.
Eagle	Gunboat	Hawk- class	1883	1884	Stranded off Apia in 1889 during a cyclone .	1,040
Aegir	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1895	1896	Sold in 1922 and converted into a cargo ship, scrapped in 1930.	3,752
Albatross	Gunboat	Albatross class	1871	1871	Sold in 1899 and used up as a lighter , stranded in 1906.	786
Albatross	Mine cruiser	Nautilus class	1907	1908	1915 in Sweden interned , scrapped 1,921th	2,506
Alexandrine	Cruiser corvette	Alexandrine class	1885	1886	Painted and scrapped in 1907.	2,662
Alice Roosevelt	Torpedo boat		1886	1887	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	300
Amazon	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1900	1901	Deleted in 1931, scrapped in 1954.	3,082
Answald	Aircraft mother ship		1909	1915	Delivered to Great Britain, broken up in 1933.	13,200
Arcona	Covered corvette	Arcona class	1858	1859	Deleted in 1884, used up as a target ship .	2,391
Arcona	Cruiser corvette	Alexandrine class	1885	1886	Renamed Mercur in 1902 , scrapped in 1906.	2,662
Arcona	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1902	1903	Removed in 1930, scrapped in 1948/49.	3,180
Ariadne	Cruiser corvette	Ariadne class	1871	1873	Painted and scrapped in 1891.	2,072
Ariadne	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1900	1901	Sunk in 1914 during the sea ​​battle near Heligoland .	3,082
Arminius	Armored vehicle	Single ship	1864	1865	Deleted in 1901, scrapped in 1902.	1,829
augsburg	Small cruiser	Kolberg class	1909	1910	Delivered to Japan, scrapped in 1922.	4,915
Augusta	Smooth-deck corvette	Augusta class	1864	1864	Lost in the Gulf of Aden in 1885 .	2,272
Ausonia	Aircraft carrier		1915	not completed	Wrecked in 1922.	12,585
Ayesha	Auxiliary cruiser		1907	1914	Sunk in 1914 after a short period of use.	97
to bathe	Ironclad	Saxony class	1880	1883	Deleted in 1910, scrapped in 1939/40.	7,938
to bathe	Large-line ship	Bavaria class	1915	1916	Beached in Scapa Flow in 1919 , sunk as a target ship in 1921 .	32,200
Barbarossa	Wheel frigate	Single ship	1840	1849	Sunk as a target ship in 1880, lifted up again and broken up.	1.313
basilisk	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1862	1863	Deleted in 1876, used up as a cream .	422
basilisk	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1878	1880	Deleted in 1910, scrapped in 1920.	1,157
Bavaria	Ironclad	Saxony class	1878	1881	Deleted in 1910, scrapped in 1919.	7,742
Bavaria	Large-line ship	Bavaria class	1915	1916	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, lifted in 1934, scrapped in 1935.	32,200
Beowulf	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1890	1892	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1921.	4,225
Berlin	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1903	1905	Deleted in 1935, sunk in the Skagerrak in 1947 .	3.816
Berlin	Auxiliary cruiser		1908	1914	1914 in Trondheim detained , extradited to Britain, scrapped 1,932th	23,700
bee	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1876	1881	Deleted in 1910, scrapped in 1921.	1,157
Bismarck	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1877	1878	Painted in 1891, used as a residential hulk until 1918 , scrapped in 1920.	3,386
lightning	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1862	1863	Deleted in 1876, used up as a coal hulk.	422
lightning	Aviso	Blitz class	1882	1883	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	1,486
Blucher	Torpedo training ship	Bismarck class	1877	1878	Canceled in 1908, used up as a coal hulk in Vigo .	3,386
Blucher	Big cruiser	Single ship	1908	1909	Sunk in battle on Dogger Bank in 1915 .	17,500
Brandenburg	Ship of the line	Brandenburg class	1891	1893	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	10,670
Braunschweig	Ship of the line	Braunschweig class	1902	1904	Deleted in 1931, scrapped after being used as the Hulk.	14,394
Bremen	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1903	1904	Run into a mine in 1915 and sunk.	3.816
brake	Armored gunboat	Brummer class	1884	1884	Canceled in 1903, used up as a pram.	929
brake	Small cruiser	Brummer class	1916	1916	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, lifted in 1929 and broken up in 1932/33.	5,856
Wroclaw	Small cruiser	Magdeburg- class	1911	1912	Sunk on a mine in front of Imbros in 1918 .	5,587
Grunt	Armored gunboat	Brummer class	1884	1884	Deleted in 1907, scrapped in 1922 after being used as a Lagerhulk.	929
Grunt	Small cruiser	Brummer class	1915	1916	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919.	5,856
buzzard	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1890	1890	Deleted in 1912, scrapped in 1913.	1,868
Camaeleon	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1860	1861	Deleted in 1872, used up as a coal hulk.	422
Camaeleon	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1878	1880	Deleted in 1909, sold in 1910 and used up as a premium .	1,157
Cap Trafalgar	Auxiliary cruiser		1913	1914	Sunk in 1914 by the Carmania .	23,640
Carmen	Torpedo boat		1886	1887	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	300
Carola	Cruiser corvette	Carola class	1880	1881	Deleted in 1905, scrapped in 1906.	2,424
Charlotte	Cruiser frigate	Single ship	1885	1886	Deleted in 1914, sold in 1921 and used up as the Hulk.	3,763
Cologne	Small cruiser	Kolberg class	1909	1911	Sunk in 1914 during the battle near Heligoland .	4,915
Cologne	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1916	1918	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 .	7,486
Comet	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1860	1861	Deleted in 1881 when the Hulk was used up.	422
Comet	Aviso	Meteor- class	1892	1893	Deleted in 1911, scrapped in 1921.	1,111
Condor	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1892	1892	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	1,864
Cormorant	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1892	1893	Blown up in Tsingtau in 1914 .	1,864
Cormorant	Auxiliary cruiser		1909	1914	1914 in Guam interned , 1917 scuttled.	7,250
Crocodill	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1879	1880	Deleted in 1911, scrapped after 1918.	1,157
Cyclop	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1860	1864	Painted and scrapped in 1872.	422
Cyclop	Gunboat	Single ship	1874	1875	Removed in 1888, reused as the Hulk, confiscated and scrapped by Great Britain in 1914.	531
Cyclop	Dock ship	Single ship	1916/17	1918	1919 to Great Britain, broken up in 1923.	4,872
Danzig	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1905	1907	Canceled in 1919, extradited to Great Britain, scrapped 1921–23.	3.816
dolphin	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1860	1864	Painted and scrapped in 1881.	422
dolphin	tender		1906	1906	Sold in 1926.	445
Derfflinger	Big cruiser	Derfflinger class	1913	1914	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted in 1939, scrapped in 1946.	31,200
Germany	Ironclad	Kaiser- class	1874	1875	Renamed Jupiter in 1904 , deleted in 1906, scrapped in 1910 after being used as a target ship .	8,940
Germany	Ship of the line	Germany class	1904	1906	Deleted in 1920, scrapped by 1922.	14,218
Germany	Auxiliary miners		1909	1914	From 1919 used again as a trajectory, broken up in 1963.	4,200
Dragon	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1865	1869	Painted in 1887, sunk as a target ship in 1888, lifted again and scrapped.	422
Dragon	tender		1908	1908	Sunk in 1945 in the Königsberger See Canal by bombs.	790
Dresden	Small cruiser	Dresden class	1907	1908	Self- scuttled near Robinson Crusoe Island in 1915 .	4,268
Dresden	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1917	1918	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919.	7,486
boar	Gunboat	Single ship	1887	1887	Stranded off Apia in 1889 during a cyclone .	735
boar	Gunboat	Polecat class	1903	1903	1914 in Bahia interned , 1917 scuttled.	1,193
Elblag	Small cruiser	Pillau class	1914	1915	1916 collided with the Posen during the Battle of the Skagerrak and sank.	5,252
Elisabeth	Covered corvette	Arcona class	1868	1869	Painted in 1887, broken up in 1904 after being used as a residential hulk.	2,912
Alsace	Ship of the line	Braunschweig class	1903	1904	Deleted in 1931, scrapped in 1936.	14,394
Emden	Small cruiser	Dresden class	1908	1909	Beached near the Cocos Islands in 1914 after a battle with the Sydney .	4,268
Emden	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1916	1916	Delivered to France in 1920, scrapped in 1926.	7.125
Falcon	Aviso	Single ship	1865	1870	Deleted in 1890, scrapped in 1892.	1,230
Falcon	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1891	1891	Deleted in 1912, scrapped in 1913.	1,868
Nimble	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1883	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Frankfurt	Small cruiser	Wiesbaden class	1915	1915	Sunk in 1921 during tests with aerial bombs.	6,601
Women praise	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1902	1903	Sunk in 1916 during the Battle of the Skagerrak .	3,180
Women praise	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1918	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	7,486
Freya	Cruiser corvette	Ariadne class	1874	1876	Painted in 1896, scrapped in 1897.	2.406
Freya	Big cruiser	Victoria Louise class	1897	1900	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	6,491
Friedrich Carl	Ironclad	Single ship	1867	1867	Renamed Neptune in 1902 , deleted in 1905 and scrapped in 1906.	6,932
Friedrich Carl	Big cruiser	Prince Adalbert class	1902	1903	In 1914 ran into a mine near Memel and sank.	9,875
Frederick the Great	Ironclad	Prussia- class	1874	1877	Deleted in 1906, scrapped after being used as the Hulk in 1920.	7,718
Frederick the Great	Large-line ship	Kaiser- class	1911	1912	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted and scrapped in 1937.	27,000
Frithjof	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1891	1893	Painted in 1919, converted into a freighter and scrapped in 1930.	3,751
Fox	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1860	Deleted in 1882, used up as Prahm .	283
Fox	tender		1905	1906	Wrecked in 1929.	638
Prince Bismarck	Big cruiser	Single ship	1897	1900	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1919/20.	11,461
gazelle	Covered corvette	Arcona class	1859	1862	Painted in 1884, broken up in 1906 after being used as a living room .	2,391
gazelle	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1898	1898	Used as the Hulk from 1916, painted and scrapped in 1920.	2,963
Gefion	frigate	Single ship	1843	1849	Deleted in 1880, scrapped in 1891 after being used as a coal hulk.	1,826
Gefion	Small cruiser	Single ship	1893	1894	Painted in 1919, converted into a freighter, broken up in 1923.	4,275
vulture	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1894	1895	1914 in Honolulu interned , 1917 by the US Navy as Schurz taken by steamer 1918 Florida rammed and sunk.	1.918
vulture	Auxiliary cruiser		1913	1916	Self- sunk south of the island of Trindade in 1917 .	9,700
Glyndwr	Aircraft mother ship		1904	1914	Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, broken up in 1955.	6,000
Gneisenau	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1879	1880	1900 by storm at the pier of Málaga stranded.	2,994
Gneisenau	Big cruiser	Scharnhorst class	1906	1908	Sunk in the Falkland Islands in 1914 during the naval battle .	12,985
Goeben	Big cruiser	Moltke class	1911	1912	In 1914 transferred to the Turkish Navy, deleted in 1954, scrapped in 1973/76.	25,400
Count Spee	Big cruiser	Mackensen- class	1917	not completed	Wrecked in 1921/23.	35,300
Graudenz	Small cruiser	Graudenz class	1913	1914	Delivered to Italy in 1920, put into service there as Ancona, broken up in 1938.	6,382
Gripping	Aviso	Single ship	1886	1887	Deleted in 1912, scrapped in 1921 after being used as the Hulk.	2,266
Gripping	Auxiliary cruiser		1914	1916	Sunk in 1916 northwest of Bergen by two British auxiliary cruisers.	9,900
Cricket	Aviso	Single ship	1857	1858	Painted and scrapped in 1920.	491
Great Elector	Ironclad	Prussia- class	1875	1878	1878 rammed by the King Wilhelm and sunk.	7,718
Great Elector	Large-line ship	King class	1913	1914	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 . Lifted and scrapped in 1938.	28,600
H (ex Hermann )	Submarine trap		1901	1916	Sunk in 1916 southeast of Gotland .	5,000
hawk	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1860	Deleted in 1877, used up as a cream .	283
hawk	Gunboat	Hawk- class	1879	1880	Painted and scrapped in 1906.	1.005
Hagen	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1893	1894	Painted and scrapped in 1919.	3,741
Hamburg	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1903	1904	Deleted in 1931, sunk by bombs in 1944 after being used as a houseboat , lifted in 1949, broken up in 1956.	3.816
Hanover	Ship of the line	Germany class	1905	1907	Deleted in 1936, scrapped in 1944/46.	14,218
Hansa	Ironclad	Single ship	1872	1875	Deleted in 1888, scrapped in 1906 after being used as the Hulk .	4,404
Hansa	Big cruiser	Victoria Louise class	1898	1899	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	6,705
Hay	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1860	Deleted in 1880, used up as a cream.	283
Hay	Gunboat	Single ship	1881	1882	Deleted in 1906, scrapped in 1919 after being used as a Prahm.	247
Hay	tender		1907	1907	Deleted in 1932, sunk in Wilhelmshaven in 1945 .	670
Heimdall	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1892	1894	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1921.	3,741
Hela	More beautiful	Hela class	1853	1854	Painted and scrapped in 1871.	300
Hela	Aviso	Single ship	1895	1896	Sunk by the British submarine E9 off Heligoland in 1914 .	2,082
Heligoland	Large-line ship	Helgoland class	1909	1911	Canceled in 1919, extradited to Great Britain, broken up in 1924.	24,700
Hertha	Covered corvette	Arcona class	1864	1865	Deleted in 1884, scrapped in 1902 after being used as the Hulk.	2,504
Hertha	Big cruiser	Victoria Louise class	1897	1898	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	6,491
Hesse	Ship of the line	Braunschweig class	1903	1905	Deleted in 1935, converted into a target ship in 1935/36 , delivered to the Soviet Union in 1946.	14,394
Hildebrand	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1892	1893	Painted in 1919, stranded off the Dutch coast, wreck blown up in 1933.	3,741
Hindenburg	Big cruiser	Derfflinger class	1915	1917	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted in 1930, scrapped in 1931/32.	31,500
Hohenzollern	Imperial yacht	Single ship	1876	1880	Renamed Imperial Eagle in 1892 , deleted in 1909, scrapped in 1912.	1,962
Hohenzollern	Imperial yacht	Single ship	1892	1893	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1923.	4,460
Hohenzollern	Imperial yacht	Single ship	1914	not completed	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1923.	8.094
bumblebee	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1881	1892	Deleted in 1910, sunk in Swinoujscie in 1945 after being used as a depot ship .	1,157
hyena	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1860	Deleted in 1873, used up as a target ship .	283
hyena	Gunboat	Wolf- class	1878	1879	Painted in 1920, used as a cargo ship, sunk off Dieppe in 1924 , lifted again and scrapped.	570
Polecat	Gunboat	Wolf- class	1878	1880	Stranded off the Shangtun Peninsula in 1896 during a typhoon .	570
Polecat	Gunboat	Polecat class	1898	1898	Sunk in Tsingtau in 1914 .	1,048
Polecat	Auxiliary cruiser		1905	1917	Sunk in 1917.	10,700
Irene	Cruiser corvette	Irene- class	1887	1888	Deleted in 1914, dismantled in 1921 after being used as a residential ship .	5,027
Hunter	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1861	Deleted in 1872 when the Hulk was used up.	283
Hunter	Torpedo boat	Single ship	1883	1883	Painted in 1889, scrapped in 1900.	140
hunt	Aviso	Watch class	1888	1889	Deleted in 1910, scrapped in 1920.	1,499
jaguar	Gunboat	Polecat class	1898	1899	Sunk in Tsingtau in 1914 .	1,048
K (ex Crown Prince Wilhelm )	Submarine trap		1914	1915	Sunk in 1917 together with eight trawlers northwest of Kullen .	11,200
Emperor	Ironclad	Kaiser- class	1874	1875	Renamed Uranus in 1905 , deleted in 1906, scrapped in 1920.	8,940
Emperor	Large-line ship	Kaiser- class	1911	1912	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted and scrapped in 1929.	27,000
Emperor Barbarossa	Ship of the line	Kaiser Friedrich class	1900	1901	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1919/20.	11,785
Emperor Friedrich III.	Ship of the line	Kaiser Friedrich class	1896	1898	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	11,758
Emperor Charlemagne	Ship of the line	Kaiser Friedrich class	1899	1902	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	11,859
Kaiser Wilhelm II.	Ship of the line	Kaiser Friedrich class	1897	1900	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	11,785
Kaiser Wilhelm the Great	Ship of the line	Kaiser Friedrich class	1899	1901	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	11,654
Kaiser Wilhelm the Great	Auxiliary cruiser		1897	1914	Self- sunk in shallow water off the Río de Oro in 1914 , wreck broken off in 1952.	24,300
empress	Large-line ship	Kaiser- class	1911	1913	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, lifted and scrapped in 1936.	27,000
Empress Augusta	Big cruiser	Single ship	1892	1892	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	6.318
Karlsruhe	Small cruiser	Karlsruhe class	1912	1914	1914 exploded and sank in the Atlantic.	6.191
Karlsruhe	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1916	1916	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919.	7.125
king	Large-line ship	King class	1913	1914	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919.	28,600
King Albert	Large-line ship	Kaiser- class	1912	1913	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, lifted in 1935, scrapped in 1936.	27,000
King Wilhelm	Ironclad	Single ship	1868	1869	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	10,761
Queen Luise	Auxiliary mine ship		1913	1914	Sunk in 1914 by the Amphion .	2,150
Koenigsberg	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1905	1907	Blasted in the Rufiji Delta in 1915 .	3.814
Koenigsberg	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1915	1916	Delivered to France in 1920, used there as Metz until 1934, scrapped in 1936.	7.125
Kolberg	Small cruiser	Kolberg class	1908	1910	Delivered to France in 1920, used there as Colmar until 1927, broken up in 1929.	4,915
Crown Prince	Ironclad	Single ship	1867	1867	Deleted in 1901, used as a machine training ship until 1918, scrapped in 1921.	6,760
Crown Prince	Large-line ship	King class	1914	1914	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919.	28,600
Crown Prince Wilhelm	Auxiliary cruiser		1901	1914 <	Interned in the United States in 1915, confiscated in 1917 and used as Von Steuben , scrapped in 1924.	24,900
Bold	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1882	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Elector Friedrich Wilhelm	Ship of the line	Brandenburg class	1891	1894	Sold to the Turkish Navy in 1910, renamed Barbaros Hayreddin , sunk in the Dardanelles by the E11 in 1915 .	10,670
Lauting	Tugs , mine layers	Single ship	1906	1907	1914 in Qingdao scuttled , lifted by Japan and put into service, dropped by a mine 1945th	582
Leipzig	Cruiser frigate	Leipzig class	1875	1877	Deleted in 1894, broken up in 1921 after being used as a Hulk .	4,626
Leipzig	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1905	1906	Sunk in the Falkland Islands in 1914 during the naval battle .	3.816
Leipzig	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1918	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	7,486
leopard	Auxiliary cruiser		1912	1917	Sunk in 1917 while breaking through the British blockade northeast of the Faroe Islands .	9,800
Libau	Blockade breakers		1911	1914	Sunk south of Ireland in 1916.	3,783
Loreley	Aviso	Single ship	1859	1859	Painted and sold in 1896, further whereabouts unknown.	430
Loreley	Station ship	Single ship	1885	1896	Sold to Turkey in 1918, lost in the Black Sea in 1926.	920
Lorraine	Ship of the line	Braunschweig class	1904	1906	Painted and scrapped in 1931.	14,394
lynx	Gunboat	Polecat class	1899	1900	Sunk in Tsingtau in 1914 .	1.108
Lübeck	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1904	1905	Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, broken up in 1922/23.	3.816
Lützow	Big cruiser	Derfflinger class	1913	1915	Sunk in 1916 during the Battle of the Skagerrak .	31,200
Luise	Cruiser corvette	Ariadne class	1872	1874	Painted in 1896, scrapped in 1897.	2,072
Mackensen	Big cruiser	Mackensen- class	1917	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	35,300
Magdeburg	Small cruiser	Magdeburg- class	1911	1912	Accumulated and blown up in front of Odensholm in 1914 .	5,587
Magdeburg	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1917	not completed	Wrecked in 1922.	7,486
Mainz	Small cruiser	Kolberg class	1909	1909	Sunk in 1914 during the naval battle near Heligoland .	4,915
Marie	Cruiser corvette	Carola class	1881	1883	Deleted in 1904, scrapped in 1909.	2,424
Margrave	Large-line ship	King class	1913	1914	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 .	28,600
Mars	Artillery training ship	Single ship	1879	1881	Deleted in 1914, scrapped in 1921.	3,542
Mecklenburg	Ship of the line	Wittelsbach class	1901	1903	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	12,798
Medusa	Smooth-deck corvette	Nymph- class	1864	1867	Deleted in 1881, scrapped in 1891 after being used as the Hulk .	1,202
Medusa	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1900	1901	Deleted in 1929, used as an anti-aircraft battery during World War II , scrapped in 1948/50.	3,082
meteor	Gunboat	Camaeleon class	1865	1869	Deleted in 1877, used up as a coal hulk.	422
meteor	Aviso	Meteor- class	1890	1891	Deleted in 1911, dismantled in 1919 after being used as a barge.	1,072
meteor	Auxiliary cruiser		1903	1915	Sunk in 1915.	3,640
meteor	Gunboat	Single ship	1915	1924	Delivered to the Soviet Union in 1946 , used there as an Ekvator .	1,504
Gull	Auxiliary cruiser		1914	1915	Delivered to Great Britain in 1920, sunk in the Sognefjord in 1945 .	9,800
gull	Gunboat	Hawk- class	1879	1880	Painted in 1905, sunk in Tsingtau in 1914 after being used as a Hulk .	1.005
gull	Survey ship	Planet class	1906	1907	Blown up in Dar es Salaam in 1914 .	812
Moltke	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1877	1878	Deleted in 1910, broken up after being used as a Hulk in 1920.	2,994
Moltke	Big cruiser	Moltke class	1910	1911	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, lifted in 1927, scrapped until 1929.	25,400
Moselle	Flow monitor	Rhine class	1872	1874	Sold in 1884.	283
mosquito	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1877	1885	Deleted in 1911, scrapped in 1921.	1,157
Munich	Small cruiser	Bremen class	1904	1905	Deleted in 1919, extradited to Great Britain in 1920 and scrapped.	3.816
Musquito	brig	Musquito class	1851	1862	Deleted in 1891 when the Hulk was used up.	627
Nassau	Large-line ship	Nassau class	1908	1909	Deleted in 1919, extradited to Japan in 1920 and scrapped.	20,535
Adder	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1880, further whereabouts unknown.	283
Adder	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1880	1884	Deleted in 1911, scrapped in 1924.	1,157
nautilus	Gunboat	Albatross class	1871	1873	Deleted in 1896, scrapped in 1905 after being used as the Hulk .	786
nautilus	Mine cruiser	Nautilus class	1906	1907	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1921.	2,345
Niobe	frigate	Single ship	1849	1862	Deleted in 1890, scrapped in 1919 after being used as the Hulk.	1,590
Niobe	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1899	1900	Removed in 1925, sold to Yugoslavia and employed there as Dalmacija , taken over by Italy as Cattaro in 1941 , German again in 1943, sunk northwest of Zara .	2,953
mermaid	Cruiser corvette	Single ship	1885	1886	Deleted in 1911, converted into a lighter after being used as the Hulk in 1925 , scrapped in 1930.	1,982
North Sea	tender	Single ship	1914	1914	Delivered to the United States in 1947, scrapped in 1949.	859
Notus	Torpedo boat	Single ship	1873	1874	Painted and scrapped after being used as a tractor in 1909.	308
Nuremberg	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1906	1908	Sunk in the Falkland Islands in 1914 during the naval battle .	4,002
Nuremberg	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1916	1917	Sunk in 1922 during artillery tests near the Isle of Wight .	7.125
nymph	Smooth-deck corvette	Nymph- class	1863	1863	Deleted in 1887, scrapped in 1891 after being used as the Hulk.	1,202
nymph	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1899	1900	Deleted in 1931, scrapped in 1932.	3,082
Odin	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1894	1896	Deleted in 1919, converted into a freighter in 1922, scrapped in 1935.	3,754
Oldenburg	Ironclad	Single ship	1884	1886	Deleted in 1912, broken up in 1919 after being used as a target ship .	5,743
Oldenburg	Large-line ship	Helgoland class	1910	1912	Delivered to Japan in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	24,700
Olga	Cruiser corvette	Carola class	1880	1881	Deleted in 1905, scrapped in 1908.	2,424
Ostfriesland	Large-line ship	Helgoland class	1909	1911	Delivered to the United States in 1920, sunk in bomb tests off Virginia Beach in 1921 .	24,700
Oswald	Aircraft mother ship		1905	1914	Delivered to Great Britain in 1919, sunk in 1945.	7,640
otter	Gunboat	Single ship	1877	1878	Deleted in 1907, sold in 1914 after being used as Hulk and Prahm , scrapped in 1926.	164
otter	River gunboat	Single ship	1909	1910	Confiscated by China in 1917, sunk on the Sungari in 1929 , lifted and scrapped in 1932.	314
Panther	Gunboat	Polecat class	1901	1902	Painted and scrapped in 1931.	1,193
pelican	Mine ship	Single ship	1890	1891	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	2,424
arrow	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1872, used up as a cream .	283
arrow	Aviso	Blitz class	1882	1884	Painted and scrapped in 1922.	1,486
Pillau	Small cruiser	Pillau class	1913	1914	Delivered to Italy in 1920, deployed there as Bari , sunk in Livorno in 1943 .	5,252
planet	Survey ship	Planet class	1905	1905	Sunk in front of Yap in 1914 , lifted and scrapped in 1916.	826
Pommerania	Aviso	Single ship	1864	1870	Painted in 1890, converted into a three-masted schooner in 1892 , lost in the Baltic Sea.	460
Pomerania	Ship of the line	Germany class	1905	1907	Sunk in 1916 during the Battle of the Skagerrak .	14,218
Poses	Large-line ship	Nassau class	1908	1910	Delivered to Great Britain in 1920, scrapped in 1922.	20,535
Prussia	Ironclad	Prussia- class	1873	1876	Renamed Saturn in 1903 , deleted in 1906, scrapped in 1919 after being used as the Hulk.	7,718
Prussia	Ship of the line	Braunschweig class	1903	1905	Deleted in 1929, scrapped in 1931.	14,394
Prussia	Auxiliary miners			1914	Delivered to the Soviet Union after the Second World War, used up as a houseboat .	4,200
Prussian eagle	Aviso	Single ship	1846	1848/1863	Deleted in 1877, sunk in 1879 during torpedo blast attempts off Kiel-Wik .	1,430
Prince Adalbert	Armored vehicle	Single ship	1864	1866	Painted and scrapped in 1878.	1,560
Prince Adalbert	Cruiser frigate	Leipzig class	1876	1877	Deleted in 1890, scrapped in 1907 after being used as the Hulk.	4,626
Prince Adalbert	Big cruiser	Prince Adalbert class	1901	1904	Sunk in 1915 by the British submarine E8 .	9,875
Prince Eitel Friedrich	Auxiliary cruiser		1904	1914	1915 in Newport News interned , 1917 seized by the United States scrapped 1934th	16,000
Prince Heinrich	Big cruiser	Single ship	1900	1902	Painted and scrapped in 1920.	9,806
Prince Wilhelm	Cruiser corvette	Irene- class	1887	1889	Deleted in 1914, scrapped in 1922 after being used as the Hulk.	5,027
Prince Regent Luitpold	Large-line ship	Kaiser- class	1912	1913	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted in 1931, scrapped in 1932/33.	27,000
regensburg	Small cruiser	Graudenz class	1914	1915	Delivered to France in 1920, used there as Strasbourg until 1934 , used up as a barge in Lorient until 1944 .	6,382
Renown	Artillery training ship	Single ship	1857	1870	Painted in 1881, used as a barracks ship from 1884 to 1889, scrapped in 1892.	5,692
Restaurador	Gunboat	Single ship	1883	1902	Returned to the Venezuelan Navy in 1903.	509
Rhine	Mine steamer	Single ship	1867	1867	Deleted in 1911, sold after being used as the Hulk in 1920 and used up as a Prahm .	482
Rhine	Flow monitor	Rhine class	1872	1874	Sold in 1884, further whereabouts unknown.	283
Rhineland	Large-line ship	Nassau class	1908	1910	Delivered and scrapped in 1920.	20,535
Rival	Torpedo boat	Single ship	1874	1874	Deleted in 1884, broken up in 1916 after being used as a tug .	131
Roon	Big cruiser	Roon class	1903	1906	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	10,266
Rostock	Small cruiser	Karlsruhe class	1912	1914	1916 blown up after heavy hits during the Skagerrak Battle .	6.191
Rostock	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1918	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	7,486
rover	brig	Musquito class	1853	1862	Deleted in 1890, scrapped in 1911 after being used as a Prahm.	627
Saxony	Ironclad	Saxony class	1877	1878	Deleted in 1910, broken up after being used as a target hulk in 1919.	7,935
Saxony	Large-line ship	Bavaria class	1916	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	32,500
salamander	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1861	Deleted in 1878, used up as a cream .	283
salamander	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1880	1883	Deleted in 1909, stranded near Castricum in 1910 while being transported for dismantling .	1,157
Santa Elena	Aircraft mother ship		1907	1915	Delivered to the United States in 1919, sunk in Marseille in 1944, lifted and scrapped in 1945.	13,900
Shame	River gunboat	Single ship	1899	1900	Painted and sold in 1904.	36
Sharp	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1882	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Scharnhorst	Big cruiser	Scharnhorst class	1906	1907	Sunk in the Falkland Islands in 1914 during the naval battle .	12,985
Silesia	Ship of the line	Germany class	1906	1908	Blasted off Swinoujscie in 1945 , wreck broken off in 1949–56.	14,218
Schleswig-Holstein	Ship of the line	Germany class	1906	1908	Sunk in Gotenhafen in 1944.	14,218
Snow white	Torpedo boat , station yacht	Single ship	1888	1889	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1921.	88
Sagittarius	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1882	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Swabia	Ship of the line	Wittelsbach class	1901	1904	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	12,798
swallow	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1872, used up as a cream.	283
swallow	Small cruiser	Swallow- class	1887	1888	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1922.	1,359
Scorpion	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1861	Deleted in 1877, used up as a cream.	283
Scorpion	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1877	1884	Deleted in 1911, scrapped in 1924.	1,157
White-tailed eagle	Small cruiser	Buzzard- class	1892	1892	Destroyed in 1917 by a mine self-ignition.	1,864
White-tailed eagle	Auxiliary cruiser		1878	1916	Drifted onto a reef while anchoring near Mopelia in 1917 .	4,500
Seydlitz	Big cruiser	Single ship	1912	1913	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted in 1928, broken up in 1930.	28,550
For sure	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1883	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Siegfried	Coastal armored ship	Siegfried class	1889	1890	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	3,741
Sleipner	Torpedo boat		1899	1900	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	440
Sophie	Cruiser corvette	Carola class	1881	1882	Painted in 1908, broken up in 1921 after being used as a residential ship .	2,424
Sparrowhawk	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1878, used up as a cream.	283
Sparrowhawk	Small cruiser	Swallow- class	1888	1889	Deleted in 1912, scrapped after being used as the Hulk in 1922.	1,359
stone	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1879	1880	Deleted in 1908, scrapped after being used as a Hulk in 1920.	2,994
Szczecin	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1907	1907	Delivered to Great Britain in 1920, scrapped 1921-23.	3,822
Stosch	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1877	1877	Painted and scrapped in 1907.	2,994
Stralsund	Small cruiser	Magdeburg- class	1911	1912	Delivered to France in 1920 and used there as Mulhouse, broken up in 1935.	5,587
Strasbourg	Small cruiser	Magdeburg- class	1911	1912	Delivered to Italy in 1920 and used there as Taranto , sunk by bomb hits in 1944.	5,587
Stuttgart	Small cruiser	Koenigsberg class	1906	1908	Delivered to Great Britain in 1920 and scrapped.	4,002
Taku	Torpedo boat	Single ship	1898	1900	Deleted in 1914, sunk in front of Tsingtau .	305
Brave	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1883	Deleted in 1890, scrapped in 1908.	56
Thetis	frigate	Single ship	1846	1855	Deleted in 1871, scrapped in 1894 after being used as the Hulk .	1,882
Thetis	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1900	1901	Deleted in 1929, scrapped in 1930.	3,082
Thuringia	Large-line ship	Helgoland class	1909	1911	Delivered to France in 1920, broken up in 1923 after being used as a target ship .	24,700
tiger	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1877, used up as a cream .	283
tiger	Gunboat	Polecat class	1899	1900	Blown up in Tsingtau in 1914.	1.108
Triton	Survey ship		1902	1918	Deleted in 1921, then used for various purposes and sunk in 1944.	2,000
Tsingtau	River gunboat	Tsingtau class	1903	1904	Sunk near the canton in 1917 .	280
Ulan	Torpedo steamer	Single ship	1876	1876	Deleted in 1909, scrapped in 1926 after being used as a Prahm .	438
Undine	brig	Single ship	1869	1871	Stranded in Jammer Bay in 1884 .	670
Undine	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1902	1904	Sunk in the Baltic Sea by the British submarine HMS E19 in 1915 .	3,180
Fatherland	River gunboat	Tsingtau class	1903	1904	Confiscated by China in 1917, scrapped after 1942.	280
Victoria	Cruiser corvette	Augusta class	1864	1864	Deleted in 1891, scrapped in 1892.	2,272
Victoria Louise	Big cruiser	Victoria Louise class	1897	1899	Deleted in 1919, converted into a cargo ship, broken up in 1923.	6,491
Victoria Luise	Auxiliary cruiser		1900	1914	Disarmed again after a few days, broken up in 1925.	27,350
Vineta	Covered corvette	Arcona class	1863	1864	Deleted in 1884, scrapped in 1897 after being used as the Hulk .	2,504
Vineta	Big cruiser	Victoria Louise class	1897	1899	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1920.	6,705
Vineta	Auxiliary cruiser	Single ship	1914	1915	Disarmed after a few days, delivered to Great Britain in 1919, back to Hamburg Süd in 1921, scrapped in 1936.	24,500
viper	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1876	1885	Painted in 1909, converted into a crane ship.	1,157
From the Tann	Big cruiser	Single ship	1909	1910	Sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919 , lifted and scrapped in 1930/31.	21,300
Forward	Torpedo boat	Sagittarius- class	1882	1882	Painted in 1891, scrapped in 1900.	56
Forward	River gunboat	Single ship	1899	1901	Deleted in 1910, sold in 1911 and used as a passenger steamer.	406
volcano	Dock ship	Single ship	1907	1908	Sunk in the North Sea in 1919 during the transfer to Harwich .	2,476
Watch	Aviso	Watch class	1887	1888	1901 collided with the Sachsen near Rügen and sank.	1,499
Weissenburg	Ironclad	Brandenburg class	1891	1894	Sold to the Turkish Navy in 1910, used there as Turgut Reis , broken up in 1952 after being used as a residential ship .	10,670
wasp	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Deleted in 1872, used up as a cream .	283
wasp	Armored gunboat	Wasp- class	1876	1876	Deleted in 1909, used up as a prahm.	1,157
Westphalia	Large-line ship	Nassau class	1908	1909	Delivered to Great Britain in 1920, scrapped in 1924.	20,535
Wettin	Ship of the line	Wittelsbach class	1901	1902	Removed in 1920, scrapped in 1922.	12,798
Wiesbaden	Small cruiser	Wiesbaden class	1915	1915	Sunk in 1916 during the Battle of the Skagerrak .	6,601
Wiesbaden	Small cruiser	Cöln class	1917	not completed	Wrecked in 1920.	7,486
Wittelsbach	Ship of the line	Wittelsbach class	1900	1902	Painted and scrapped in 1921.	12,798
Wörth	Ship of the line	Brandenburg class	1892	1893	Painted and scrapped in 1919.	10,670
wolf	Gunboat	Hunter- class	1860	1864	Painted in 1875, sunk in 1884 during torpedo attempts off Kiel-Wik , lifted again and scrapped.	283
wolf	Gunboat	Wolf- class	1878	1878	Deleted in 1906, broken up in 1919 after being used as a repair ship.	570
wolf	Auxiliary cruiser		1906	1916	Stuck on a sandbank while sailing in 1916.	12,900
wolf	Auxiliary cruiser		1913	1916	Delivered to France in 1919, scrapped in 1931.	11,200
Volya	Large-line ship	Imperatriza Marija class	1914	not happened	Taken over by the White Army under Pyotr Nikolaevich Wrangel at the end of 1918 , interned in Bizerta in 1920, broken up in 1936.	22,600
Württemberg	Ironclad	Saxony class	1878	1881	Painted and scrapped in 1920.	7,877
Württemberg	Large-line ship	Bavaria class	1917	not completed	Wrecked in 1921.	32,200
Yorck	Big cruiser	Roon class	1904	1905	In 1914 ran into a mine on the Inner Jade and sank.	10,266
Zähringen	Ship of the line	Wittelsbach class	1901	1902	Painted in 1920, converted into a target ship, sunk in 1944 by bomb hits off Gotenhafen , lifted again and sunk as a block ship in 1945 .	12,798
Zephyr	Torpedo boat	Single ship	1874	1874	Wrecked in 1907 after being used as a tractor .	131
Zieten	Aviso	Single ship	1876	1876	Deleted in 1919, scrapped in 1921.	1,170

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Units of the Imperial Navy without names

• List of German U-Boats (1906-1919)
• List of German torpedo boats (1871-1919)
• List of German large torpedo boats (1898–1919)
• List of A Class coastal torpedo boats
• List of German minesweepers (1915-1919)

See also

• List of German battleships and battle cruisers
• List of German cruisers

literature

• Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970. JF Lehmanns Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich 1970. ISBN 3-88199-474-2 .
• Friedrich Forstmeier : German capital ships, 1915-1918. The development of the question of type in the First World War . JF Lehmann, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-469-00287-8 . (2nd edition 2002)
• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. 6 volumes. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982. ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
• Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. 10 volumes. Mundus Verlag, Ratingen o. J.
• Gerhard Koop / Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Ship classes and ship types of the German Navy. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn.
• Paul Schmalenbach: The German auxiliary cruisers 1895-1945. Verlag Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7979-1877-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ships of the Imperial Navy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The actual type ship of the class is the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , but the name of the class after the second ship Brandenburg has generally established itself .
2. ↑ The exact date of the launch is not known, the information fluctuates between the years 1916 and 1917.
3. ↑ Different information: 1905 (Dieter Jung: The ships of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, p. 52/53. ISBN 3-7637-6247-7 )
4. ↑ Due to the outbreak of the First World War and the low combat value of a gunboat, the ship was not completed. After the end of the war, the construction was completed and the ship was put into service by the Reichsmarine as a survey ship .
5. ↑ Contrary to most publications, the ship's name was officially spelled with "v" and not with "w". This can be seen on the official seal of the auxiliary cruiser. (Paul Schmalenbach: The German auxiliary cruisers 1895–1945. Verlag Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1977, p. 46. ISBN 3-7979-1877-1 )
6. ↑ The ship was originally used as a mail steamer between Stettin and Kronstadt , then in 1848 for the Prussian Navy. In 1850 the Prussian Adler was converted back into a merchant ship and only finally accepted into the Prussian Navy in 1862.
7. ↑ Originally launched under the name Kaiseradler . Since the old imperial yacht Hohenzollern was given this name, the cruiser was renamed Seeadler four months after it was launched .

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