List of German battleships and battle cruisers

This list includes all German battleships and battle cruisers . This also includes the ships of the line and large cruisers of the Imperial Navy and the armored ships of the Navy .

class	Ships				Technical specifications			Type	image
	Number in service / planned	Surname	period of service	in service at	Tonnage (tons)	Speed (kn)	Main armament
Brandenburg class	4/4	SMS  Elector Friedrich Wilhelm SMS Brandenburg SMS Weißenburg SMS Wörth	1894–1915 † 1893–1919 1894–1933 1893–1919	Kaiserl. Marine Osman. Marine Turk. marine	10,600	16.9	6 × Rk 28.0 cm L / 40 or L / 35	Ship of the line (until 1899: ironclad )
Emperor Friedrich III. -Class	5/5	SMS Kaiser Friedrich III. SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II. SMS Kaiser Karl der Große SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große SMS Kaiser Barbarossa	1898–1920 1897–1921 1899–1920 1899–1920 1900–1920	Kaiserl. marine	11,150	18.0	4 × 24.0 cm SK L / 40	Ship of the line
Wittelsbach class	5/5	SMS Wittelsbach SMS Wettin SMS Zähringen SMS Schwaben SMS Mecklenburg	1902–1921 1903–1922 1903–1944 † 1903–1921 1903–1921	Kaiserl. Navy Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine	11,700	18.0	4 × 24.0 cm SK L / 40	Ship of the line
Braunschweig class	5/5	SMS Braunschweig SMS Alsace SMS Hessen SMS Prussia SMS Lorraine	1904–1931 1904–1931 1905–1960 (approx.) 1905–1931 1906–1931	Kaiserl. Navy Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine Soviet. marine	12,800	18.7	4 × 28.0 cm SK L / 40	Ship of the line
Germany- class (1904)	5/5	SMS Germany SMS Hanover SMS Pommern SMS Schlesien SMS Schleswig-Holstein	1906–1920 1907–1935 1907–1916 † 1908–1945 † ³ 1908–1945 † ³	Kaiserl. Navy Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine	12,900	18.5	4 × 28.0 cm SK L / 40	Ship of the line
Nassau class	4/4	SMS Nassau SMS Westfalen SMS Rheinland SMS Poznan	1909-1919 1909-1919 1910-1918 1910-1919	Kaiserl. marine	18,500	19.0	12 × 28.0 cm SK L / 45	Large-line ship ( battleship )
Helgoland class	4/4	SMS Helgoland SMS Ostfriesland SMS Thuringia SMS Oldenburg	1911-1919 1911-1919 1911-1919 1912-1919	Kaiserl. marine	22,400	20.8	12 × 30.5 cm SK L / 50	Large-line ship (battleship)
From the Tann	1/1	SMS Von der Tann	1910–1919 † ²	Kaiserl. marine	19,000	24.8	8 × 28.0 cm SK L / 45	Large cruiser ( battle cruiser )
Moltke class	2/2	SMS Moltke SMS Goeben	1911–1919 † ² 1912–1954	Kaiserl. Marine Osman. Marine Turk. marine	22,600	28.4	10 × 28.0 cm SK L / 50	Large cruiser (battle cruiser )
Seydlitz	1/1	SMS Seydlitz	1913–1919 † ²	Kaiserl. marine	23,700	28.1	10 × 28.0 cm SK L / 50	Large cruiser (battle cruiser )
Kaiser- class	5/5	SMS Kaiser SMS Friedrich der Große SMS Kaiserin SMS Prinzregent Luitpold SMS King Albert	1912–1919 † ² 1912–1919 † ² 1913–1919 † ² 1912–1919 † ² 1912–1919 † ²	Kaiserl. marine	24,300	23.4	10 × 30.5 cm SK L / 50	Large-line ship (battleship)
King class	4/4	SMS King SMS Great Elector SMS Margrave SMS Crown Prince	1914–1919 † ² 1914–1919 † ² 1914–1919 † ² 1914–1919 † ²	Kaiserl. marine	25,400	23.0	10 × 30.5 cm SK L / 50	Large-line ship (battleship)
Derfflinger class	3/3	SMS Derfflinger SMS Lützow SMS Hindenburg	1914–1919 † ² 1915–1916 † 1917–1919 † ²	Kaiserl. marine	26,300	26.5	8 × 30.5 cm SK L / 50	Large cruiser (battle cruiser )
Bavaria class	2/4	SMS Bayern SMS Baden SMS Sachsen SMS Württemberg	1916–1919 † ² 1916–1919 not completed not completed	Kaiserl. marine	28,000	22.0	8 × 38 cm SK L / 45	Large-line ship (battleship)
Mackensen- class (1915)	0/4	SMS Mackensen replacement Freya SMS Graf Spee replacement Friedrich Carl	not finished not finished not finished not finished		(30,500)	(28.0)	8 × 35 cm SK L / 45	Large cruiser (battle cruiser )
Replacement Yorck class (1916)	0/3	Replacement Yorck Replacement Gneisenau Replacement Scharnhorst	not finished not started not started		(32,900)	(27.3)	8 × 38 cm SK L / 45	Large cruiser (battle cruiser )
Project L 20 e α (1917/18)			not started		(48,000)	(26)	8 × 42 cm L / 45 SK	Large-line ship (battleship)
Germany- class (1931)	3/3	Germany Admiral Scheer Admiral Graf Spee	1933–1945 † ³ 1934–1945 † 1936–1939 † ³	Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine	10,000	28.0 to 28.5	6 × 28.0 cm Sk C / 28 L / 52	Ironclad
Scharnhorst class	2/2	Scharnhorst Gneisenau	1939–1943 † 1938–1942	Navy	31,800	31.5	9 × 28.0 cm Sk C / 34 L / 54.5	Battleship
Bismarck class	2/2	Bismarck Tirpitz	1940–1941 † 1941–1944 †	Navy	42,000	30.8	8 × 38 cm Sk C / 34 L / 47	Battleship
H-Class (1939)	0/6	Battleship H and J Battleship K to N	not finished not started		(52,600)	(30)	8 × 40.6 cm Sk C / 34 L / 47	Battleship
O-Class (1939)	0/3	Battlecruisers O to Q	not started		(30,500)	(35)	6 × 38 cm	Battle cruiser
P-Class (1939)	0/12		not started		(27,500)	(33)	6 × 28 cm L / 52 Sk	Ironclad

Legend

* The period of service corresponds to the period between commissioning and decommissioning or deletion from the fleet register or the loss of the ship.

† - sunk, loss due to enemy action

† ² - sunk in Scapa Flow itself

† ³ - sunk or blown up by myself

Footnotes

1. ↑ sold to Turkey in 1910, there as Barbaros Hayreddin into service
2. ↑ 1910 sold to Turkey, there as Torgud rice into service
3. ↑ 1935–37 converted into a radio-controlled target ship
4. ↑ 1935–37 converted into a radio-controlled target ship, handed over to the Soviet Union after the Second World War, where it was in service as a Tsel
5. ↑ Handed over to Turkey in 1914 and since then in service as Yavuz Sultan Selim with German occupation, finally transferred to Turkey in 1918
6. ↑ Construction contracting and material preparations took place, but the ships were not started.