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Understanding the Kaiserliche Marine: A Historical Quiz

A quiz designed to test your knowledge about the Kaiserliche Marine, its history, key figures, and significant events.

#Kaiserliche Marine #Imperial Navy #naval history #Germany #World War I #military

1 ________

2 ________ (Vice Admiral Franz Hipper)

3 In February 1912 the British war minister, ________, came to Berlin to discuss possible limits to naval expansion.

4 Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as ________ from 1904 to 1909.

5 The main fighting forces of the navy were to become the High Seas Fleet, and the ________ fleet.

6 In June 1888 ________ became Emperor after the death of his father Frederick III, who ruled for only 99 days.

7 The Navy grew to become one of the greatest maritime forces in the world during its existence, second only to that of the ________.

8 One such organisation, the navy league or Flottenverein, was organized by principals in the steel industry (________), ship yards and banks, gaining more than one million members.

9 The ________ were referred to as Seebatallione [sea battalions] they served in the Prussian navy, the navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and briefly in the modern Federal German Navy, the Bundesmarine.

10 It was the first navy to successfully operate submarines on a large scale at war (375 submarines had been commissioned by the end), and also operated ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the British submarine HMS E13 (pictured) was attacked and destroyed by German warships during World War I after running aground off the neutral Danish island of Saltholm.
  • the SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought ship built by the German Imperial Navy.
  • the Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleships (SMS Kaiser Barbarossa pictured) introduced the standard configuration for pre-dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine.
  • the German pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Wörth (pictured) represented the Kaiserliche Marine at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review in 1897.
  • the German 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was featured in the main batteries of 16 of the 26 capital ships built by the Kaiserliche Marine before the First World War.
  • the sinking of the SS Königin Luise (pictured) was the first German naval loss of the First World War.
  • the four Brandenburg class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy.
  • the German Bayern class battleships Bayern (pictured) and Baden were the last dreadnoughts built by the Kaiserliche Marine.
  • the Harwich Force, under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt, oversaw the surrender of German U-boats at the end of the First World War.
  • the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat was the largest class of torpedo boats ever produced for the Kaiserliche Marine.
  • SMS Brandenburg (pictured), launched on 21 September 1891, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the German Imperial Navy.
  • SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy.
  • HMS Fifi, a German warship captured and added to the Royal Navy during the First World War, was named to mean 'tweet-tweet' in French.
  • SM U-10 and SM U-11, which were U-10-class submarines constructed in Germany and shipped to Austria-Hungary by rail, were both commissioned into the German Imperial Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy during World War I.
  • The Queen was captured by the Germans in 1916.
  • both of the Kaiserliche Marine's Odin-class coast defense ships were rebuilt as freighters after the end of World War I.
  • after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships.
  • Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge (pictured) was court-martialled for his failure to successfully engage the German warships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau.
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