S.M.S. König Albert (1912)
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| S.M.S. König Albert | |
| Career | Details |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 17 July 1910 |
| Launched: | 27 April, 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 31 July, 1913 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 21 June, 1919 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Builder: | Schichau, Danzig |
| Displacement: | 27,000 tons |
| Length: | 172.4 m |
| Beam: | 29.0 m |
| Draft: | 9.1 m |
| Propulsion: | 39,813 shp |
| Speed: | 22 knots |
| Range: | 7,900 st. mi. at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 1,084 |
| Armament: | 10 × 30.5 cm guns 14 × 15 cm guns 8 × 8.8 cm guns 5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes |
S.M.S. König Albert was a Kaiser Class battleship built in Germany prior to the First World War and which served in the High Sea Fleet of the Imperial German Navy during that war.
König Albert was the final ship of five which comprised the Kaiser class. It was the only vessel of the Imperial Fleet to be given the name König Albert.
During the war, König Albert was assigned to the III Battleship Squadron along with its sister-ships, although it was the only one to miss the Battle of Jutland. The ship was interned at Scapa Flow until the scuttling of the fleet on 21 June, 1919.
The wreck was raised in the 1930s.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Kapitän zur See Karl Thorbecke, 31/7/1913 - ?/7/1917.[1]
- Korvettenkapitän Ernst Arnold, ?/7/1917 - 2/8/1917. (temporary)[1]
- Kapitän zur See Ernst Ewers, 3/8/1917 - 24/8/1917.[1]
- Korvettenkapitän Paul Globig, 25/8/1917 - 25/9/1917. (temporary)[1]
- Kapitän zur See Eduard Varrentrapp, 26/9/1917 - 30/11/1917.[1]
- Kapitän zur See Ernst Ewers, 1/12/1917 - 3/12/1918.[1]
- Korvettenkapitän Ferdinand Boehmer, 4/12/1918 - 21/6/1919.[1]
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