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SMS ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was the fifth and final vessel of the of battleships of the Imperial German Navy. ''Prinzregent Luitpold''s keel was laid in October 1910 at the Germaniawerft dockyard in Kiel. She was launched on 17 February 1912 and was commissioned into the navy on 19 August 1913. The ship was equipped with ten guns in five twin turrets, and had a top speed of . ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was assigned to the III Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career; in December 1916, she was transferred to the IV Battle Squadron. Along with her four sister ships, , , , and , ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' participated in all of the major fleet operations of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916. The ship was also involved in Operation Albion, an amphibious assault on the Russian-held islands in the Gulf of Riga, in late 1917. After Germany's defeat in the war and the signing of the Armistice in November 1918, ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' and most of the capital ships of the High Seas Fleet were interned by the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow. The ships were disarmed and reduced to skeleton crews while the Allied powers negotiated the final version of the Treaty of Versailles. On 21 June 1919, days before the treaty was signed, the commander of the interned fleet, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, ordered the fleet to be scuttled to ensure that the British would not be able to seize the ships. ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was raised in July 1931 and subsequently broken up for scrap in 1933. == Construction == ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was long overall and displaced a maximum of . She had a beam of and a draft of forward and aft. She had a crew of 41 officers and 1,043 enlisted men. ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was powered by two sets of Parsons steam turbines, supplied with steam by 14 coal-fired boilers. Unlike her four sisters, the ship was intended to use a diesel engine on the center shaft, but this was not ready by the time work on the ship was completed. The engine was never installed, and so ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was slightly slower than her sisters, which were equipped with a third turbine on the center shaft. The powerplant produced a top speed of . She carried of coal, which enabled a maximum range of at a cruising speed of . ''Prinzregent Luitpold'' was armed with a main battery of ten 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns in five twin turrets. The ship dispensed with the inefficient hexagonal turret arrangement of previous German battleships; instead, three of the five turrets were mounted on the centerline, one forward and two of them arranged in a superfiring pair aft. The other two turrets were placed ''en echelon'' amidships, such that both could fire on the broadside. The ship was also armed with fourteen in casemates amidships, eight in casemates and four 8.8 cm L/45 anti-aircraft guns. The ship's armament was rounded out by five torpedo tubes, all mounted in the hull; one was in the bow, and the other four were on the broadside. 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 Prinzregent Luitpold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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