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The Bayern Class German Battleships of World War One, Bayern, Baden. The Last of the Great German battleships of World war one, Bayern and Baden had sister ships Wurtenberg and Sachsen but both were not completed.  Naval art print of Bayern and Baden by Randal Wilson available from Cranston Fine Arts

BAYERN CLASS   Built as a response to the New Royal naval battleships of the Queen Elizabeth Class. and the Baden and Bayern were the first German battleships to have 15-inch guns which fired a 1,653  lb shell. Both missed the Battle of Jutland

BAYERN  Built by Howaldtswerke at Kiel and launched on the 18th February 1915, commissioned  on the 18th March 1916. Missed the Battle of Jutland. During the operation Albion  the Bayern was mined in the Gulf of Riga. This caused serious flooding in the Torpedo Rooms after this four torpedo tubes were removed.  Interned at Scapa Flow she was scuttled by her crew on the 21st June 1919 and raised in 1935 to be scrapped at Rosyth.
BADEN  Built at Schichau at Danzig and launched on the 30th October 1915 and commissioned on the 19th October 1916. Missed Jutland. Baden became fleet flagship in March 1917 when she entered the fleet. She was interned at Scapa Flow on the14th December 1919 and the crew attempted to Scuttle her on the 21st June 1919. But Failed she was finally beached by Royal naval Tugs.  Baden was used by the Royal navy for Gunnery practice and was sunk off Portsmouth.

The uncompleted WURTENBERG AND SACHSEN were both broken up on the slipways at Hamburg and Kiel.

The Kaisers Ship by Randall Wilson.

Emerging from a smokescreen SMS Baden surges ahead of her sister ship SMS Bayern to resume battle speed in these fleet manoeuvres in the Baltic, during 1917

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