That was just a big cruiser.

Okay, this is where the list is going to live:

http://www.thehistoryforum.com/battleships/

It is going to take me a while to format it all, but when I have I would like to add to each one the following:

Date Launched.
Fate (eg sunk 1945, scrapped 1947).
Type (eg pocket battleship, battle-crusier).

Any help with that would be much appreciated.

I have the 1906 Kaiserlichemarine ship lists.

I will get something done with them if you like.

What is the purpose behind this?

O.K. If you like I can get some of the stuff about the German navy, that I have here translated, and posted. Complete with references etc.

So the start point you wish to have is 1900?

That helps, as there really was not a lot before that. With the Prussian/Germans any way.

That would be appreciated yes. Just for those ships listed. In the case of Germany that is:

Deutschland
Hannover
Pommern
Schlesien
Schleswig-Holstein
Nassau
Posen
Rheinland
Westfalen
Helgoland
Oldenburg
Ostfriesland
Thuringen
Von der Tan
Friedrich der Grosse
Kaiser
Kaiserin
Konig Albert
Prinzregent Luitpold
Grosser Kurfurst
Konig
Kronprinz (later Kronprinz Wilhelm)
Markgraf
Goeben
Moltke
Seydlitz
Derfflinger
Lutzow
Hindenburg
Mackensen
Prinz Eitel Friedrick
Graf Spee
Fürst Bismarck
Baden
Bayern
Sachsen
Wurttemberg
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Scheer
Deutschland (later renamed Lutzow)
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Bismarck
Tirpitz

O.K. Where there is more than one ship of that name, the Gneisenau class above, for example, I will give all.

At which date do you wish to end? 1945, or up to modern day?

Germany has not built any battleships since 1945, so it doesn't matter. Just those battleships listed, not any other types of ship.

Another wee problem I have found. All ships that may be refered to as "Battle-ships", in the first world war, were built BEFORE 1900., with one or two exceptions that were built in 1900 exactly.

Bayern 1882, and Baden 1884, for example.

So I will take 1880 as the earliest date.

For our purposes we are starting at the turn of the century (as Mr Bill mentioned earlier). You appear to be confusing ships. Bayern (as in this list) was completed June 1916.

I will check the dock yard lists. There seem to have been a lot of ships built in the 1890s that did not last long.

Probably the fault of Tirpitz, with his modernisations.

Battleships list completed.

Looks good.

I see a couple of the U.S ones are listed as "struck from Naval register". Any idea what that means exactly? Are they sold to, say, Brazil, or something?

I am also surprised that the U.S did not have more.

It means that they are moored up doing nothing. They have been taken off the official list of US Navy warships, but they have yet to be sold for scrap or be handed over to become museum ships (more likely).

So, an "official" term for mothballed?

Presumably a ship that was "mothballed" would be kept on the books because it might go back into service. It is basically saying that this ship's service is over.

That's a very impressive list Fox.

Yes, very good.

Cheers. I just need to comment the list of American battleships and then I can start work on pages for the individual ships.

Just an update on this. I finished commenting the entire table some time ago. Since then I have been adding individual pages for every ship, each including one picture. At present I am over half way. Once finished I will then go back and start adding more detail to each page, one ship at a time.