TNS Valmistaja
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_starboard_bow_view.jpg) TNS Valmistaja Underway in the North Lutentian in 1938
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Englean Kaiserreich |
| Operators: |
 Kaiserliche-Marine |
| Preceded by: | Hohenzern Class |
| Succeeded by: | Nassau Class |
| Built: | 1914-1916 |
| In commission: | 1916-1950 |
| Planned: | 2 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Active: | 0 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| Englean Kaiserreich
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| Name: | Götterdämmerung |
| Namesake: | Twilight of the Gods |
| Laid down: | 2 February 1913 |
| Launched: | 3 March 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 6 June 1916 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 December 1967 |
| Fate: | Vessel deemed too costly to preserve, essential parts scrapped and ship sunk as artificial reef in 1980. |
| Status: | Wreck currently used as eco-tourist attraction in about 130 feet of water, Haldemar Archipelago. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Displacement: | 49,000 tons |
| Length: | 248 m (814 ft) |
| Beam: | 35.37 m (116.0 ft) |
| Draft: | 9.90 m (32.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 17 Hardelwerke boilers |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,313 |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 x reconnaissance aircraft |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 x catapult |
The Götterdämmerung class was a planned set of two superbattleships to be operated by the Englean Kaiserliche-Marine during the First Great War. Planned during the early 1910s, the class was designed to succeed the previous Hohenzern class battleships and to "out-gun" the vessels currently in service with the major nations of the time. The primary feature of the vessel was the inclusion of the prototype 42 cm (16.5 in) SK L/45 guns recently developed by the Kaiserliche-Marine. Ultimately only one vessel would be built, the SMS Götterdämmerung, which would see service until 1950. The Götterdämmerung would see action in the First Great War, being a major target of the Rhodeve Navy during the Hunt for the Götterdämmerung in 1917.