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Type: Konig class battleship and the name ship of its class of Dreadnoughts. She was built at the Kaiserliche Werft dockyards in Wilhelmshaven and launched on 1st March 1913. She was armed with ten 12" guns arranged in five double gun turrets, two superfiring turrets fore and aft with one turret amidships between the two funnels her secondary armament were fourteen 5.9" guns, six 3.5" guns and five 20" torpedo tubes. She was scuttled by her crew on 21 June 1919, together with the entire German High Seas Fleet and sank at 1645 hrs.
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Wreck Information : The starboard side is only a few feet above the silty bottom and the port side is sunk in the seabed. The Konig is in the worst condition of the German fleet it's hull is open most of its length showing the inside of the ship and the center gun turret is just visible with the guns sunk below the seabed.
Harbour / slip: Stromness
Travel directions: Northlinkferries 0845 6000 449. Photographic ID is required on the ferry now.
Parking In the car park opposite to the ferry car entrance.
Distance from harbour:
Lat / Long: N 58.53.13 E 3.09.07 East side of Cava
Chart: Admiralty Chart 35, Scapa Flow and Approaches
Depth: 37m on the seabed and 16m at the shallowest point of the hull.
Tides: Tide tables
Dive Boat: The Karin Jean Elaine Sharon Rose Sunrise Gaelic rose Invincible Halton Valkyrie
Day boats: Radiant queen
Dive Shop: Scapascuba
Accommodation: Polrudden guest house Orkney Islands Tourist Board, 01856 872856,
Suggested experience: Master diver
Other comments:
Pub: The Ferry Inn & Flatties Bar
Created by: Finstrokes
Date: 12/5/09
Revision: 3
Thanks To: The Karin
Underwater photos: By Kevin Heath Link
Voice pipe Inside "A" Turret
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Dive Report: John Nicolson 17/5/2010 Dived the SMS Konig a few times on this trip and we got 10-15m viz at the sea bed and more on the hull. There are a few places to penetrate the wreck, the easiest is at the stern with a long swim through and small openings letting light in.