SMS Großer Kurfürst (1911)
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| Career | 
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| Laid down: | October 1911 |
| Launched: | 5 May 1913 |
| Commissioned: | 30 July 1914 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 21 July 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 28,600 |
| Length: | 575 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 96 ft 9 in |
| Draft: | 29 ft 9 in |
| Propulsion: | 3 shaft turbines, 31,000 shp |
| Speed: | 21 kts |
| Range: | 8,000 st. mi. at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 1,136 |
| Armament: | 10 x 12 in guns 14 x 5.9 in guns 10 x 8.8 cm guns 5 x 19.7 in torpedo tubes |
SMS Großer Kurfürst was a König Class battleship of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during the First World War.
Großer Kurfürst was built by Vulcan, Hamburg. She was laid down in October 1911, launched in May 1913 and commissioned in July 1914.
She took part in the Battle of Jutland, where she was damaged by 5 heavy caliber hits, with 15 dead and 10 wounded. She was torpedoed by the submarine HMS J1 on 5 November 1916, yet survived the war.
Großer Kurfürst was part of the great scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, sinking on 21 June 1919 at 13:30 pm. She was salvaged in April 1933 and scrapped at Rosyth, Scotland. Part of the ship (the mast) is still divable in 33 m of water in the water of Scapa Flow.
The ship was the second to be named after Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, known as the Great Elector (in German Großer Kurfürst ). The German Imperial Navy had an earlier capital ship by the same name, the armored ship SMS Großer Kurfürst.
See also
- List of German Imperial Navy ships
- List of naval ships of Germany
- List of ship launches in 1913
- List of ship commissionings in 1914
- List of shipwrecks in 1919
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