The Imperial German Navy
from 1888 to 1918

Introduction: A brief discussion on the Imperial Navy before the accession of His Majesty Wilhelm the Second, German Emperor and King of Prussia.
The Naval Ministries and Administration: The development of the naval bureaucracy, naval planning, ship design offices, the Imperial Naval ministry at the beginning of the First World War.
His Majesty's Ships: Details of the capital ships of the Wilhelmine period. The pre-dreadnaught navy; the battle cruisers and drednaught battleships; statistical tables, individual ship's histories, disposition of the Fleet at the outbreak of the War. 24.September.2005. Pictures added!
The War at Sea: His Majesty's Ships in action. The battles of the South Pacific and South Atlantic, of the North Sea, and fleet losses, 1914 through 1918.


Unfortunately these pages are still in drydock. AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF INACTIVITY, THE DRYDOCK IS ONCE AGAIN IN OPERATION, AND WE HOPE OUR MANY FRIENDS WILL RETURN OFTEN TO SEE THE PROGRESS BEING MADE. We're working on them as fast as we're able, but the massive numbers of tables are proving to be a little more difficult to produce than we had at first planned! Additionally...as with most efforts of this kind, the more information one gathers, the more there seems to be...Gad!...What have we let ourselves in for?
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