SMS Grosser Kurfürst (1913)

SMS Grosser Kurfürst
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	October 1911
Launched:	May 1913
Commissioned:	July 1914
Fate:	scuttled
General characteristics
Displacement:	28380
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
Complement:
Armament:	ten 12 in guns fourteen 5.9 in guns five 19.7 in torpedo tubes

SMS Grosser Kurfürst was a German Koenig Class battleship of the Kaiserliche Marine during the First World War. She was named after Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, known as the great elector or Grosser Kurfürst in german. Grosser Kurfürst was built by Vulcan, Hamburg. She was laid down in October 1911, launched May 1913 and commissioned July 1914.

She fought in the Battle of Jutland, where she was damaged. She was torpedoed by submarine HMAS_J1 on 5 November 1916, yet survived the war.

Part of the great scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland. She sank on the 21st of June 1919 at 13:30.

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.