High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SMS Kaiserin ("His Majesty`s Ship Empress") was the third vessel of the Kaiser class of battleships of the German Imperial Navy. Kaiserin`s keel was laid in November 1910 at the Howaldtswerke dockyard in Kiel. She was launched on 11 November 1911 and was commissioned into the fleet on 15 May 1913. The ship was equipped with ten 30.5-centimeter (12.0 in) guns in five twin turrets, and had a top speed of 22.1 knots (40.9 km/h; 25.4 mph). Kaiserin was assigned to the III Battle Squadron and later the IV Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career, including World War I.