SMS Great Elector (1913)
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| Ship data | ||
| Construction designation | Replacement Elector Friedrich Wilhelm | |
| Ship type | Large-line ship | |
| Ship class | King class | |
| Keel laying : | 1911 | |
| Launching ( ship christening ): | May 5, 1913 | |
| Commissioning: | July 30, 1914 | |
| Builder: |
AG Vulcan , Hamburg, construction no .: 4 |
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| Crew: | 1,200 men | |
| Building-costs: | 45 million gold marks | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement : | Construction: 25,796 t Maximum: 28,600 t |
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| Length: |
KWL : 174.7 m over everything: 175.4 m |
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| Width: | 29.5 m | |
| Draft : | 8.90 - 9.19 m | |
| Machinery: | 12 coal-fired and 3 oil-fired steam boilers 3 sets of Parson steam turbines |
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| Power: | 45,100 PSw | |
| Number of screws: | 3 three-leaf Ø 3.8 m | |
| Shaft speed: | 254 / min | |
| Power on the waves: | 8,100 W PS per shaft | |
| Top speed: | 21.2 kn | |
| Driving range: | 8,000 nm at 12 kn | |
| Fuel supply: | approx. 3,000 tons of coal and 600 tons of oil | |
| Armor | ||
| Belt armor: lower passage |
front: 120 mm middle: 350 mm aft: 180 mm |
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| Belt armor: upper aisle |
front: 120 mm middle: 180 mm aft: 130 mm |
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| Deck: | horizontal: 60 mm slopes: 100 mm |
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| Towers : | Front / sides: 300 mm, ceiling: 110 mm |
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| Front control station: | horizontal: 150 mm vertical: 300 mm |
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| Control station aft: | horizontal: 50 mm vertical: 200 mm |
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| Casemates : | 170 mm shields: 80 mm |
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| Armament | ||
| Guns from Krupp 30.5 cm L / 50 SK C / 12: |
10 centerline positioning in five twin towers |
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| Guns from Krupp 15 cm L / 45 SK C / 16: |
7 per side individually in casemates |
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| Guns from Krupp 8.8 cm L / 78 C / 31: |
6th | |
| Guns from Krupp 8.8 cm L / 45 SK C / 13: |
6 flak | |
| Torpedo tubes Ø 50 cm | 5 | |
SMS Großer Kurfürst was a large-line ship of the König class of the Imperial Navy . The ship was launched on May 5, 1913 at the AG Vulcan shipyardin Hamburg and was put into service on July 30, 1914.
Use in the First World War
In the First World War the Great Elector was the III. Squadron assigned to the deep sea fleet . In December 1914 she took part in the bombardment of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby .
In the Skagerrakschlacht the Great Elector belonged to the 5th Division of III. Squadron that drove from May 31 to June 1, 1916 at the head of the ocean-going fleet and was exposed to heavy enemy fire. The Großer Kurfürst , driving second on the keel line , suffered five 38.1-cm hits and three 34.3-cm hits. 15 crew members were killed and 10 others wounded. The repair took place from June 6th to July 16th 1916 at AG. Vulcan in Hamburg .
On November 5, 1916 she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS J1 off the Danish coast, but reached the safe harbor. The repair at AG. Vulcan lasted from November 10, 1916 to February 9, 1917.
On March 5, 1917, during association exercises near Heligoland , she rammed her sister ship Kronprinz starboard sideways at the height of the second 30.5 cm twin tower. The bow was pushed in to two thirds of its height almost to the starboard anchor hull, but after an emergency repair in the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven , she was ready for use again on April 22nd. In the same year, on October 12, it ran into a Russian mine at the Albion company in the Baltic Sea . The final repairs were carried out in the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven from October 18 to December 1, 1917.
On April 23, 1918, she took part in the last advance of the deep sea fleet to the breadth of Utsire (Norway).
After touching the ground on May 30, 1918 near Helgoland, the ship was repaired from June 2 to 9, 1918 and again from June 21 to July 31 in the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel . During the Kiel sailors' uprising on November 4, 1918, there was a mutiny on board.
Whereabouts
After the end of the war was Great Elector in Scapa Flow interned and on June 21, 1919 there by her crew scuttled when it was clear that the Allies would not give the interned ships back. The wreck was lifted in 1938 and scrapped in Rosyth .
The ship's bell, which was bought by a private individual before being scrapped , was auctioned by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth in March 2014 and will be exhibited there in the future.
Commanders
| July 1914 to November 1917 | Sea captain Ernst Goette |
| November 1917 | Corvette Captain Ludwig Klehe (substitute) |
| November 1917 to December 1918 | Sea captain Werner Siemens |
| December 1918 to June 1919 | Lieutenant Captain Robert Beer |
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: The battleships of the König class , in: Marine-Arsenal , Volume 26, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag GmbH, 61169 Friedberg (Dornheim), 1994
- Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905 - 1970. JF Lehmanns Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich 1970. ISBN 3-88199-474-2
- Erich Gröner / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 1. 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. Volume 4. Mundus Verlag, Ratingen o. J.