German Battleship SMS Posen

German Battleship SMS Posen — a Kagero naval publication

A title from the naval book output of the Kagero publishing house. It deals with the battleship SMS Posen, one of the units of the Imperial German Navy from the years before the First World War. It is a text to read — you will find no model and no accessory for a model in the package.

On the real subject

SMS Posen was a battleship of the Nassau class, that is the very first German class of dreadnoughts. That class differed strikingly from the British pattern: the main battery was laid out in a hexagonal arrangement with turrets along the sides, and propulsion still came from reciprocating steam engines rather than turbines. It is exactly these features that make the ships of the Nassau class a technically distinctive chapter. The Posen served with the High Seas Fleet and took part in combat operations in the First World War.

What it is suited to

• as background for a model of a German dreadnought of the First World War period
• as a way of adding to a naval library a subject that tends to stand in the shadow of later ships
• as reading on the engineering of the early dreadnought era
• usable whatever the scale of the model being built

Who it is for

For modelers of ships of the First World War period, for collectors of naval literature and for readers interested in the development of surface vessels. The text is technical and factual.

This is a publication, not a model — hence no scale. Check the extent, the language and the year of publication in the imprint of the book.