High Seas Fleet

In 1907, Tirpitz founded the 'High Seas Fleet' in Wilmshaven, as an attempt to make a fleet that challenged Britain's predominance in the North Sea. Over the next seven years, the fleet was massively expanded, and the Home Fleet was forced to recall much of its overseas navy to prevent German superiority.

Before the Great War
A series of naval bills, passed in 1898, 1900, 1908 and 1912, brought the Hochseeflotte to greater and greater heights, seriously alarming the British. By 1914, the Hochseeflotte contained: With the British continuing the blockade, and the short experiment of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (USW) shut down by Tirpitz and the Kaiser, no real engagement was fought between the navies, making it a heavy point of speculation.
 * Seventeen Battleships
 * Five Battlecruisers
 * Twenty Five Cruisers
 * 40+ U-Boats

The Interwar Period
The Naval Bill of 1920 further expanded the Hochseeflotte, and recieved funding for: This massive bill, unsuprisingly terrified the British, who placed funding allocated for paying back the war debts to the U.S into building more ships. Most notably, the HMS Argus, the first dedicated Aircraft Carrier.
 * Six Dreadnoughts
 * Two Superdreadnoughts
 * Five Cruisers
 * Eleven Submarines