New London, USA 1-11-1916. Original source
An item reported that in contrast to what was claimed on Tuesday the former German submarine cruiser Deutschland still existed. On Tuesday was reported that she was destroyed by gunfire off Cherbourg, France, but in fact she was lying in the dock of the firm Clover, Clayton&Co., Birkenhead, England.(1)
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1. Building ordered as private cargo submarine for account of the North German Lloyd subsidiary Deutsche Ozean-Reederei on 27 October 1915, launched by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft on 28 March 1916, completed by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany, converted into the U-155 and commissioned in the German navy on 19 February 1917, surrendered on 24 November 1918, sold to be broken up in 1921 which was executed by Robert Smit and Sons, Birkenhead, England at Morecambe in 1922.