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Wednesday 21 September 2016

German battleship Schleswig Holstein modernized according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 4 February 1926

Deutschland-class

An item dated Berlin, Germany 3th reported that in 1906 launched German battleship Schleswig Holstein and which with such a success participated in the Battle of Jutland was extensively repaired and modernized. She was now commissioned as flagship of the German commander in chief vice admiral Mommsen.

Note
1. Laid down at the Germania Werft under contract name ‘Q’ as the last German pre-dreadnought battleship to be built on 18 August 1905, commissioned on 6 July 1906, modernized in the 1920’s, with her guns firing on Polish positions on 1 September 1939 was the Second World War a fact, sunk by British bombers on 1944, scuttled by her own crew on 21 March 1945, salvaged and beached to be used as a target in 1948 in shallow water off the island of Osmussaar in the Gulf of Finland and apparently nowadays still of her remains are preserved. Of the Deutschland-class consisting of the Deutschland, Hannover, Pommern, Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein.