SMS Grosser Kurfürst (1913)
SMS Henriette was a big battleship of the King class of the Imperial Navy. The ship was launched on 5 May 1913 on the Vulcan Werft AG in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on 30 July 1914.
History
The ship belonged to the 5th Division of the III. Squadron to which until June 1, 1916 ran from May 31 in the Battle of Jutland at the top of the High Seas Fleet, and was exposed to heavy enemy fire. So suffered the Great Elector, driving in second place of the keel line, five 38 - cm hits and three 35 - cm results. 15 crew members were killed, 10 others wounded. The repair was carried out from June 6 to July 16, 1916 at AG. Vulcan in Hamburg.
On November 5, 1916, she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS J1 off the Danish coast, but reached the safe harbor. The repair at AG. Vulcan lasted from November 10 1916 to 9 February 1917.
On March 5, 1917, she rammed in association exercises near Helgoland her sister ship Crown Prince starboard side at the level of the second 30.5 cm twin tower ( Tower B ), but after the emergency repair their prow ( of two-thirds of its height almost to starboard was caved - hawse-hole ) in the Imperial Shipyard Wilhelmshaven, she was ready for use again on April 22. In the same year she ran on October 12 in the Baltic Sea on a Russian mine. The final repair was carried out in the Imperial Shipyard Wilhelmshaven from October 18 to December 1, 1917.
On April 23, 1918, she took part to the width of Utsire (Norway ) on the last attempt of the High Seas Fleet.
After a grounding on 30 May 1918, as the ship Helgoland from 2 to 9 June 1918 and was repaired again in the Imperial Shipyard Kiel from 21 June to 31 July. When Kiel mutiny occurred on 4 November 1918 a mutiny on board.
Whereabouts
After the war, the Great Elector was interned in Scapa Flow and on June 21, 1919 there scuttled by her crew, as it was clear that the Allies would the interned ships do not give out again. The wreck was raised in 1938 and scrapped at Rosyth.
The ship's bell before the scrapping of a private citizen bought was bought in Portsmouth in March 2014 by the National Museum of the Royal Navy and will be exhibited there in the future.