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| Career (Germany) |
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| Namesake: | King Frederick II of Prussia |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan, Stettin |
| Laid down: | 26 January 1910 |
| Launched: | 10 June 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 15 October 1912 |
| Fate: | Scuttled at Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow 21 June 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kaiser-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 24,724 tonnes (design) 27,000 tonnes (maximum) |
| Length: | 172.4 m (565 ft 7 in) overall |
| Beam: | 29 m (95 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 3 shaft AEG-Curtis turbines, 42,181 shp; three 3-blade propellers, 3.75 m diameter |
| Speed: | 22 knots (40.7 km/h) |
| Range: | 7,900 nautical miles (14,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 41 officers, 1,043 enlisted men |
| Armament: | 10 × 305 mm (12.0 in)/50 calibre guns in 5 twin
turrets 14 × 150 mm (5.9 in)/45 caliber guns in single casement mounts 12 × 88 mm (3.5 in)/45 calibre guns in single mounts 5 × 500 mm (20 in) underwater torpedo tubes |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | 3rd Battleship Squadron |
| Operations: | Battle of Jutland |
SMS Friedrich der Grosse (also spelt Große) was a German Kaiser class battleship built before World War I which served in the High Seas Fleet of the Kaiserliche Marine, the German Imperial Navy, during that war.
The second of five ships in her class, she was built by AG Vulcan at Stettin, launched on 10 June 1911, and commissioned on 15 October 1912. Friedrich der Grosse, named after King Frederick II of Prussia, commonly known as "Frederick the Great", was assigned to the 3rd Battleship Squadron, along with her sisters, and she served as the flagship of the High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) until 14 March 1917. She participated in a number of fleet operations in 1914 and 1915. In 1916, in the 1st Battle Squadron under Admiral Reinhard Scheer, led the German fleet in the Battle of Jutland. Following Jutland, the German fleet rarely ventured from its ports, so that the ship's subsequent career was rather uneventful, comprising occasional sorties into the North Sea, operations in the Baltic Sea in 1917, and a final unsuccessful raid in 1918 toward Stavanger in Norway.
Following the armistice at the end of World War I, the ship, along with the entire rest of the High Seas Fleet, was interned at Scapa Flow, where she was scuttled by her crew on 21 June 1919 to prevent her from becoming the war booty of any of the Allied Powers. On 29 April 1937, the wreck was refloated upside down by Metal Industries Ltd. She arrived at Rosyth on 5 August 1937, where she was broken up in a dry-dock.
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