S.M.S. König Albert (1912)

S.M.S. König Albert (1912)
Builder:	Schichau-Werke, Danzig
Laid down:	17 Jul, 1910
Launched:	27 Apr, 1912
Commissioned:	31 Jul, 1913
Scuttled:	21 Jun, 1919
Fate:	at Scapa Flow

S.M.S. König Albert was a Kaiser Class battleship built in Germany prior to the First World War and which served in the High Sea Fleet of the Imperial German Navy during that war.

König Albert was the final ship of five which comprised the Kaiser class. It was the only vessel of the Imperial Fleet to be given the name König Albert.

During the war, König Albert was assigned to the III Battleship Squadron along with its sister-ships, although it was the only one to miss the Battle of Jutland. The ship was interned at Scapa Flow until the scuttling of the fleet on 21 June, 1919.

The wreck was raised in the 1930s.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Kapitän zur See Karl Thorbecke, 31 July, 1913 – late July, 1917  (dying under "slightly" mysterious circumstances)
• Korvettenkapitän Ernst Arnold, July, 1917 – 2 August, 1917
• Kapitän zur See Ernst Ewers, 3 August, 1917 – 24 August, 1917
• Korvettenkapitän Paul Globig, 25 August, 1917 – 25 September, 1917
• Kapitän zur See Eduard Varrentrapp, 26 September, 1917 – 30 November 1917
• Kapitän zur See Ernst Ewers, 1 December, 1917 – 3 December, 1918
• Korvettenkapitän Ferdinand Boehmer, 4 December, 1918 – 21 June, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia
• Original plan drawings of sister Kaiser
• Original plan drawings of sister Friedrich der Große
• 3D Model available for licensing

Bibliography

• Grießmer, Axel (1999). Linienschiffe der Kaiserlichen Marine 1906-1918: Konstructionen zwischen Rüstungskonkurrenz und Flottengesetz. Bonn: Bernard & Graefe Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-5985-9.