Information on the following Battleships: Prinz Heinrich, Kronprinz and the Margraf, for the years 1915 , 1916

Answer 1

The SMS Prinz Heinrich was laid down 1898 and completed 1902. SMS Prinz Heinrich like other German large cruisers, she was intended for overseas duties but once war had started this role was not viable and they were not modern enough to be useful in the more dangerous North Sea or Baltic theatres and were soon relegated to secondary roles. 16 December 1914 took part in the operation to bombard Hartlepool. Apr 1915 was deployed in the Baltic Sea. March 1916 she was used as a barrack ship.
1920 Sold for scrapping.

The German passenger liner Kronprinz Wilhelm was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany, in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große. She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914-1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then surrendering to the United States when she ran out of supplies. She then served as a US Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923.

Laid down in November 1911, launched on June 4, 1913 and commissioned on October 1, 1914, SMS Markgraf was a member of the four-ship Konig battleship class that was the first to be powered by advanced coal-fired turbine engines with oil-fired supplementary burners. At the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916, she suffered four hits from the 15 inch guns of Warspite and Malaya and a 12 inch shell hit from Agincourt but remained in action with eleven casualties, requiring only seven weeks for her repairs after the action. Following the Armistice, she was interned at Scapa Flow from November 26, 1918. In common with most of the German ships interned there, Markgraf was scuttled by her own crew on June 21, 1919. She remained in Scapa Flow, basically undisturbed for many years, until salvage rights were acquired by a Scottish company in 1962.

Answer 2

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