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König Class Battleships |
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| Main Armament: | Ten 30.5 cm quick firing guns of 50 calibres length, arranged in five double gun turrets. Two superfiring turrets fore and aft with one turret amidships between the two funnels. |
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| Secondary and Tertiary Armaments: |
Fourteen 15 cm quick firing guns of 45 calibres length in casemates. Six 88 mm quick firing guns mounted in casemates, later all removed. Two or four 88 mm single mount anti-aircraft guns. Five 50 cm underwater torpedo tubes, one in bow, two on each beam. |
| Armor: | Armoured traverse bulkheads: 170mm-200mm...Side armour: stern/from stern 0mm-180mm, vital areas/350mm, forward areas/towards bow 150mm-120mm...Citadel armour: aft/130mm, vital areas/180mm, forward/120mm...Horizontal armour: upper deck/30mm, armoured deck/60mm with 100mm inclines...Heavy guns turrets: barbettes/300mm, turrets/300mm front, 110mm top...Casemates: 170mm...Conning tower/300mm-150mm forward, 200mm aft. |
| Machinery: | Twelve coal fired, and three oil fired naval boilers driving three turbines
yeilding 31,000 shaft horsepower at 21.0 knots. The original plans drawn up in
1911 proposed the installation of one MAN two stroke six cylinder diesel engine
for cruising which would have produced an estimated 12,000 horsepower at 12
knots cruising speed. This proposed installation was later planned for
S.M.S. Grosser Kurfürst and S.M.S. Markgraf only, but in the end
the diesel engines were not placed in any of the ships as they were not ready
in time. In place of the diesels, an additional turbine was provided. Three
propellers, two parallel rudders. The trial run results for the sisters were
as follows: S.M.S. König, with Parsons turbines, developed 43,300 s.h.p. at 21.0 knots; S.M.S. Grosser Kurfürst, with AEG-Vulcan turbines developed 45,100 s.h.p. at 21.2 knots; S.M.S. Markgraf with Bergmann turbines developed 41,400 s.h.p. at 21.0 knots; S.M.S. Kronprinz with Parsons turbines developed 46,200 s.h.p. at 21.3 knots. |