The first two "William III" class h39 and h40 were started in July 15 and August 1913, and the construction process was surprisingly smooth. The current data is

The "William III" class has a total length of 277 meters, a waterline of 266 meters, a width of 38, a draft of 9. A draft of 11. 50, a width of 4s meters, a draft of 12 meters). This class of ships fully absorbed the successful experience of "Long Live the Emperor" class and continued to use the "Long Live the Emperor" hull. In addition, welding technology is still widely used, and the welding volume accounts for 90% to 95. About 15% of the weight of the hull was used to strengthen protection. In addition, German steel was world-class at that time, and "William III" used better high-strength steel than "Long Live the Emperor", and its strike resistance will be "more to the next level".

The bow of this class of ships is still the Atlantic bow. The "Long Live the Emperor" class proves that this bow is more suitable for the North Sea and Atlantic waters. Since the ship is vulnerable to bombing and mine explosions, it uses moderate outward tension and freeboard. Even if it is damaged, causing water inlet in the bow area, it can maintain sufficient buoyancy and reach a speed of 26 knots.

The "William III" class has a total of 8480 meters (1653 inches) main guns, with 4 twin-mounted guns, A and B turrets are located at the ship, and turrets and d turrets are located at the tail of the ship. Each gun has 110 shells, totaling about 880,1000. The main gun has a rate of fire of 2 rounds. The barrel life of this gun is 180,210 rounds.

The spiral and pitch of the gun are hydraulically driven, which can reach 2 and 8 per second per second respectively. 40 minutes can fire a volley.

The main shells used in the main gun are mainly armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells, among which the power of armor-piercing shells is 10% to 15% higher than before. According to some post-war memories of the German Krupp company involved in artillery designers, at that time, frequent firepower tests were conducted on the 480-meter artillery equipped with the "William III" class, and their firepower was tested at the distance of various battleship artillery battles. The target was a vertical hit homogeneous steel armor plate. The vertical armor-piercing level within 10,000 was 620 meters. It was 462 meters, and at 35,000, it could penetrate 285 millimeters of battleships and could not get over this gun.

The secondary gun is 12 seats dual-mounted 66 times the caliber 150 mm

It is placed on both sides of the upper deck, mainly used to deal with enemy surface ships and emergency space-time shooting. There are two seats on the front of the two sides, which can be directly shot forward, and the rotation angle is two seats on the back of the two sides. The rotation angle is 135; and the other secondary guns are all located in the middle of the ship. The entire ship is equipped with 2,600 rounds of ammunition, and the maximum rate of fire of the gun is 6 rounds.

The "William III" class initially had no torpedo tubes, but after "Long Live the Emperor" was sunk, a 26-combined 533-meter tube was installed.

Air defense fire fighting, so special attention is paid to air defense fire. Even the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft are equipped with 20-meter cannons. The "William III" class air defense consists of heavy, medium and light anti-aircraft guns.

Heavy anti-aircraft guns are 16 double-connected 105-meter sk-37 anti-aircraft guns, all located on the deck of the first upper building, with 4 front, back, left and right. Six of them can shoot directly into the airspace in the front. The other 6 can shoot directly into the airspace in the rear, and there are 8 on both sides.

This type of anti-aircraft gun is greatly improved compared with the 105-meter sk-33 of the "Prince" class equipment. Its maximum firing rate reaches 15 rounds, and an elevation angle of 80 is called an inch shot height c0 meters. The rotation angle is the rotation speed

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The medium-sized anti-aircraft gun is 24 dual-mounted 37mm 83 guns, all of which are installed on the superstructure and can rotate 360; the rotation speed is 4 degrees seconds. Compared with the 37mm s30 equipped with "Long Live the Emperor" class, the actual firing rate of the former has increased to 80 rounds>: The firing rate is actually only half of the former. The 37mm 83 is 45; the maximum range is 8500 meters, and the elevation angle is 85; the range is

The light anti-aircraft gun is a 78-seater 20mm 65-mounted gun with a maximum firing rate of 120 rounds and 45; the time range is 4900, 85; the time range is 3700 meters and the rotation angle is also 360;.

It should be pointed out here that all the air defense firepower of the "William III" class is operated mechanically, while all the air defense artillery of the previous battleships were manually operated. The advantage of manual is that it can maintain combat effectiveness when the battleship power system is damaged, and the biggest disadvantage is its slow response.

Compared with the Allied warship anti-aircraft guns of the same period, the manual 105-meter guns had a reaction speed of only half that of the 134-meter guns of the British "George V" class, while the 37 guns were even more excessive, only one-third of the 40 guns. In other words, the "Long Live the Emperor" anti-aircraft guns had a reaction ability to emergencies of only 1 of the Allied forces.

William III's air defense firepower is also amazing, increasing the 37mm gun to 52, and at the same time, replacing the 20mm single-unit air defense gun with a 984-mounted ground with a short-range air defense capability of more than 4 "Tirbitz" class.

In terms of carrier-based aircraft, the William III class has 6 "Aladdo 196" seaplanes for reconnaissance, proofreading and contact. Two of them are placed in a hangar under the main mast, and the racks are placed in the standby hangar on both sides of the smoke. The aircraft is launched by the emitters between the smoke and the main mast. "William III" also carries up to 28 small boats.

It is difficult to take into account both the power and defense of armor protection. German ships adopt "heavy armorism", which is more beneficial when attacking the majority with few. German ship designers believe that one more gun does not necessarily lead to the enemy, and one more inch of armor can cause the shells of several enemy ships to be bounced off at the same time. Therefore, when designing the "William III" class, the Germans emphasized close-range protection, which not only can resist enemy ship bombing, but also has sufficient protection capabilities for torpedoes.

Therefore, the part is reinforced with 80 mm thick steel armor, which can defend against shrapnel and delay the shells passing under, and explode before they penetrate the armor plate. The armored deck protects the key parts on the ship, with a thickness of ~160 meters and a total length of 215.200400 meters, protecting the cabin, boiler compartment and ammunition compartment. The command tower and fire control parts are protected by thick armor, and the thickest part is 370 meters.

For the most vulnerable main gun turret, its front thickness is 480 meters and its side thickness is 280 meters. The main armor of the secondary gun also reaches 80 meters. The "William III" class has a very strong torpedo protection system on the side. It is said that the standard during design is to protect 1 450 grams of TNT-loaded torpedo; hit 23,450 grams of charge torpedo can continue to fight; life of 4 or more can not sink for a long time.

The initial plan was to classify the "William III" with the popular electric propulsion power system on large merchant ships. Considering the safety and fuel saving factors, the high-pressure turbine steam turbine was finally used. "William III" installed 3 "reindeer"-class Curtis light turbines, which were installed in three horizontally arranged watertight tanks, each driving a propeller. The power generation device includes a 500-watt diesel generator, 8 690-kilowatt turbine generators and 2460-watt turbine generators, with a total power generation of 12,440 watts. They were installed in 4 tanks: and diesel generators were installed in the tail tank.

The crew is 00, and as the flagship in wartime, all crew members are organized into 12 teams, each with 180,260. The 14th team is the main and secondary artillery units, the 56th team controls the anti-aircraft guns, the 7th team is composed of cooks, cobblers and other living security personnel, the 8th team is an ordnance personnel, and the 9th team includes signal soldiers, radio operators, etc., and the 1.
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