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The new German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst joins the High Seas Fleet.
The new Battleship, the SMS Grosser Kurfürst, joins the HIgh Seas Fleet. Built to sustain the German races for Naval superiority, she was 36ktons displacement and carried an armament of ten 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns, with plans to add the ship and her oncoming sisters to a new V Division of the III Battle Squadron. Although less powerful than the new Queen Elizabeth-class battleships join the fleet in the next few months, she was well armored and a useful fleet element, although he potential was never realized in combat due to restrictive limitations placed on her employment by the Kaiser.
The Grosser Kurfürst was of the König-class although the first ship of the series was not commissioned until the 8th of August, 1914
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