SMS Prinzregent Luitpold
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| Career | 
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| Laid down: | October 1910 |
| Launched: | 23 March 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 1 August 1912 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 21 June 1919 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Displacement: | 27,000 tons |
| Length: | 172.4 m |
| Beam: | 29.0 m |
| Draft: | 9.1 m |
| Propulsion: | 38,751 shp |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Range: | 7,900 st. mi. at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 1,084 |
| Armament: | 10 x 30.5 cm guns 14 x 15 cm guns 8 x 8.8 cm guns 5 x 50 cm torpedo tubes |
SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was a Kaiser class battleship built in Germany prior to World War I and which served in the High Seas Fleet of the German Imperial Navy during that war.
Prinzregent Luitpold was the fourth ship of five which comprised the Kaiser class. It was the only vessel of the Imperial Fleet to be given the name SMS Prinzregent Luitpold.
The vessel was intended to be the first German battleship to include a diesel powerplant, which was to be installed in place of the central steam turbine. In the event, the engine was never built, and the Luitpold spent its life with only two steam turbines, making it a uniquely slow member of the class.
During the war, Prinzregent Luitpold was assigned to the 3rd Battleship squadron along with its class-mates. The ship was interned at Scapa Flow until the scuttling of the fleet on 21 June 1919.
See also
- List of German Imperial Navy ships
- List of naval ships of Germany
- List of ship launches in 1911
- List of ship commissionings in 1912
- List of shipwrecks in 1919
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