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SMS ''König'' was the first of four dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine'') during World War I. ''König'' (Eng: "King") was named in honor of King William II of Württemberg. Laid down in October 1911, the ship was launched on 1 March 1913. Final construction on ''König'' was completed shortly after the outbreak of World War I; she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 9 August 1914. Along with her three sister ships, , , and , ''König'' took part in most of the fleet actions during the war. As the leading ship in the German line on 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, ''König'' was heavily engaged by several British battleships and suffered ten large-caliber shell hits. In October 1917, she forced the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship to scuttle herself in the Battle of Moon Sound, which followed Germany's successful Operation Albion. ''König'' was interned, along with the majority of the High Seas Fleet, in Scapa Flow in November 1918 following the Armistice. On 21 June 1919, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter gave the order to scuttle the fleet, including ''König'', while the British guard ships were out of the harbor on exercises. Unlike most of the scuttled ships, ''König'' was never raised for scrapping; the wreck is still on the bottom of the bay. == Construction and design == (詳細はKaiserliche Werft dockyards in Wilhelmshaven, under construction number 33. Her keel was laid in October 1911 and she was launched on 1 March 1913 by the King's cousin, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg. Fitting-out work was completed by 9 August 1914, the day she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet. She had cost the Imperial German Government 45 million ''Goldmarks''. The first of what were eventually four ships in her class, ''König'' would later be joined in service by ''Grosser Kurfürst'', ''Markgraf'', and ''Kronprinz''. ''König'' displaced as built and fully loaded, with a length of , a beam of and a draft of . She was powered by three Parsons steam turbines, which developed a total of and yielded a maximum speed of . She was armed with ten arranged in five twin gun turrets: two superfiring turrets each fore and aft and one turret amidships between the two funnels. ''König'' was the first German battleship to mount all of her main battery artillery on the centerline. Like the earlier s, ''König'' could bring all of her main guns to bear on either side, but the newer vessel enjoyed a wider arc of fire due to the all-centerline arrangement. Her secondary armament consisted of fourteen , six and five underwater torpedo tubes, one in the bow and two on each beam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS König」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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