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SMS Konig

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SMS König was the first of four König-class dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. König (English: King) was named in honor of King William II of Württemberg. Laid down in October 1911, the ship was launched on 1 March 1913. Final construction on König was completed shortly after the outbreak of World War I; she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 9 August 1914.


History

Namesake: King William II of Württemberg
Builder: Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven
Laid Down: October 1911
Commissioned: 10 August 1914
Fate: Scuttled 21 June 1919 in Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow


General Characteristics

Class and Type: König-class dreadnought battleship
Displacement:
Normal: 25,796 t (25,389 long tons)
Full load: 28,600 t (28,100 long tons)
Length: 175.4 m (575 ft 6 in)
Beam: 29.5 m (96 ft 9 in)
Draft: 9.19 m (30 ft 2 in)
Installed power:
3 × oil-fired water-tube boilers
12 × coal-fired water-tube boilers
45,570 shp (33,980 kW)
Propulsion:
3 × steam turbines
3 × screw propellers
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range: 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 41 officers and 1,095 enlisted men


Armament:
10 × 30.5 cm (12 in) guns
14 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns
10 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) guns (not enxistent)
5 × 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes


Armour:
Belt: 12 to 35 cm (4.7 to 13.8 in)
Deck: 6 to 10 cm (2.4 to 3.9 in)
Conning tower: 30 cm (11.8 in)
Turrets: 30 cm
Casemates: 15 cm


Along with her three sister ships, Grosser Kurfürst, Markgraf, and Kronprinz, König took part in most of the fleet actions during the war. As the leading ship in the German line on 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, König was heavily engaged by several British battleships and suffered ten large-caliber shell hits. In October 1917, she forced the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Slava to scuttle herself in the Battle of Moon Sound, which followed Germany's successful Operation Albion.

König was interned, along with the majority of the High Seas Fleet, at Scapa Flow in November 1918 following the Armistice. On 21 June 1919, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter gave the order to scuttle the fleet, including König, while the British guard ships were out of the harbor on exercises. Unlike most of the scuttled ships, König was never raised for scrapping; the wreck is still on the bottom of the bay.

Images

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Notes

  • Vessel's controls and instructions are written ingame.

Spotlights

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.147
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.026
  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 475640

Parts

  • Number of Parts 1181
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 4,361
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    49.1k BMilan

    Official evaluation

    - First Impression (3/5):

    The ship's upper hull and superstructure appears to be squashed at first, definitely not as tall as it should be. The non-smooth lower hull is also not so pleasing to look at but the many deck details, windows and other things somewhat compensate.


    - Design/Accuracy (9/15):

    The ship's superstructure appear to be much shorter than it should be, especially the funnels. Another inaccuracy worth mentioning is the inside of the secondary barrels is for aome reason painted in purple.
    Other than these, the rest of the detail work seem to match the real ship.


    - Details (10/15):

    The ship has a nice array of details from deck equipment, to vents, rigging and even some nice swinging hooks on the cranes.
    The searchlights having actual glass on them was a nice touch as well. The flag is also nice too, it could have been even better if it was waving.
    The bridge being hollow was also nice addition even if it's completely empty, maybe some windows could have made it even better.


    - Features (12/20):

    The ship features usable main and secondary guns, and even hull mounted torpedo tubes which is great additional feature.
    The main and secondary cannons have an interesting system in place where the ship enters a port or starboard firing mode, in which the main guns are synced up with either side's secondaries. This system worked very well for me and I rather enjoyed it as it gave a sort of realism to it (given that dreadnoughts usually engaged with broadsides)
    The ship uses vanilla propellers to move and the builder was even able to make them okay looking for a ship propeller which is a great feat (but also nice of the builder to include additional jet engines in case the vanilla propellers fail in the ocean mod). Not being able to reverse however is a bit disappointing
    The ship also uses a gyro for steering which also somehwat takes away from the immersion.
    The many cameras placed around the ship are also great too although I noticed the one labeled "Bridge" probably didn't have its offset zeroes, so it's actually above the bridge.


    - Build Quality (4/10):

    The build is rather wasteful with parts, for example, the vent in front of the no.4 turret could have had both sides made with one set of parts, halving the amount of parts needed for that detail.
    One thing that also really stood out to me was the lack of smoothing on the vertical parts of the hull, a rather unpleasant thing. What's even more strange is the builder buing inconsistent with this, because the lifeboats for example are all smoothed.
    I can't decide if the insides of the secondary barrels being purple was left like that by accident or if it was done on purpose


    - Performance (10/20):

    The ship performs well with the oean mod (larger waves cause the vanilla props to stop but that's why the backup jet engines are added. They do work well in normal conditions though), has rather okay steering and even seems to match the maximum speed of the original.
    The weapons were also quite easy and fun to use.


    - Description and Information (10/15):

    The description was quite okay, with a history section (split in two halves), some technival data and specifications and some cool screenshots with great formatting.


    Additional Points (-0, +2):

    +2 for using vanilla props and still making them look like normal ship propellers

    Total: 60

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    @BMilan Thank you Mr. BMilan.

    9 months ago
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    @Fineilldoitmyself the ships that you build are perfect for the shadow fleets needs I admire your efforts names MIDNIGHTSTRIKER I have a request for a battleship former Ijn super battleship known as Yamato I was wondering if you could make a battleship based on its design and Spectre118 quit whining about ocean liners if you want spectre118 make them your self

    9 months ago
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    Could you make more ocean liners?

    9 months ago
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    @DatRoadTrainGuy19 Nah, let's just keep him.

    +1 10 months ago
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    @Fineilldoitmyself Dude, If He Keeps Whining About A Ship, Just Block Him If His Comments Ever Get To Your Nerves.

    +1 10 months ago
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    1,019 Skitte46

    Good build

    +1 10 months ago
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    @MANYU19 I said no promises, buddy. Let me have time to think about it.

    +1 10 months ago
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    @MANYU19 No promises

    +1 10 months ago
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    @MANYU19 Hey. Yes I can but not feeling to build one right now.

    +1 10 months ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    What a beaut!

    +1 10 months ago