 Unlike most of the scuttled ships, "Markgraf" was never raised for scrapping; the wreck is still sitting on the bottom of the bay.The four s were ordered as part of the Anglo-German naval arms race; they were the fourth generation of German dreadnought battleships, and they were built in response to the British that had been ordered in 1909.The "König"s represented a development of the earlier , with the primary improvement being a more efficient arrangement of the main battery.