Talk:Imperial German Navy

message: I don't know this material well enough to make a call here, but I came across the link / de-link of SMS while patrolling RC.  Would it be appropriate to link either SMS or the words themselves to List of ships of the German navies?  That page seems to have a more complete list than the few mentioned here. SWAdair | Talk  08:51, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for notifying us of this. I have put in a See also for the link, since that will probably be the best to draw the readers' attention to the fact that such a list exists. --Wernher 10:09, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to list of ships

message: Is the picture of the jack genuine?  The iron cross in the middle seems heavily pixelated, as if it were pasted on a German tricolor by a computer artist, circa 1985.  LeoO3 02:59, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Greentubing 03:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack pic 

message: Doesn't SMS stand for Sein Majestäts Schiff? I'm not sure is it Sein or Seiner (I have a C in German ;) ), but it's definitely Majestäts, not Majestät.
--193.198.130.162 22:14, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the article is correct. For reference, check the German wikipedia entry for SMS. (The genetive of the noun proper 'Majestät' is indeed 'Majestät', not 'Majestäts' -- a form which is only used in composita such as 'Majestätsbeleidigung'.)
--89.56.217.7 16:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: SMS

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 19:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: This article has a peculiar anti-German bias. 
The single initial change which I made to the text is an example of a crafty acceptance by Herwig, or whatever he is, of one of the worst abuses of the Armistice by the British. This "Internment at Scapa Flow" nonsense was in fact the first clear naval "stab in the back", possibly with the connivance of German democratic politicians, which placed the German negotiators under such heavy duress at Versailles and of course subsequently.
The phrase "The German surface navy proved ineffective during World War I" is evidently absurd: it was the German Admiralty which proved ineffective by tying down the Fleet in home waters.
The article needs to be looked at from a fresh viewpoint and with a bibliography which is not limited mainly to one book.
Geoffreybrooks/9 October 2011.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoffreybrooks (talk • contribs) 21:08, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-German bias

message: Hello, all, 
You would never know it by the present iteration of this article, but not only did the Imperial Navy operate squadrons of airplanes during World War I, but it had its own fighter aces. For instance, the leading German naval fighter ace, Gotthard Sachsenberg, not only scored 31 victories, but took the unusual course of becoming a militant anti-Nazi in later years.
Please, can't someone fill this gap in information? I lack any info on it.
Georgejdorner (talk) 23:58, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed: heavier than air naval aviation 

message: By the start of the First World War, the German Imperial Navy possessed 22 pre-Dreadnoughts,[39] 19 dreadnought battleships and 7 battle-cruisers.
* I don't agree with the number of 19 dreadnought. 4 Nassau-class battleships, 4 Helgoland-class battleships, 5 Kaiser-class battleships, 4 König-class battleships, altogether 17 dreadnoughts. -- Zeitgeschichte (talk) 18:06, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, and the four Königs weren't completed until after the start of the war. The seven battlecruisers is also wrong, since it includes the 3 Derfflingers, which weren't completed yet either (and Hindenburg wasn't ready until 1917). Parsecboy (talk) 18:14, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War I