Polish Salvage Organisation (P.R.O.) salvaged former German warship Zaëhringen according to a CIA report dated 28 July 1954

Zaëhringen

Wittelsbach-class

An item reported that the Polish Salvage Organisation (P.R.O.) since April 1951 among other salvage operations was employed in the salvage of the German warship Zaëhringen (1) sunk during the Second World War and which wreck was complete salvaged and scrapped.

Note
1. Building ordered under the contract name ‘E’, laid down at the Germaniawerft, Kiel in 1899, launched on 12 June 1901, commissioned on 25 October 1902, converted into a target ship in 1917, converted in to a radio-controlled target ship between 1927-1928, sunk by British aircraft in Gotenhafen [nowadays Gdynia, Poland] on 18 December 1944, temporarily raised and deliberately scuttled to block the harbour when the German forces were leaving the town on 26 March 1945 and in situ broken up between 1949-1950. Of the Wittelsbach-class battleships built under the Naval Law of 1898, consisting of the Wittelsbach, Wettin, Zähringen, Schwaben and Mecklenburg precedent by the Kaiser Friederich III-class and succeeded by the Braunschweig-class.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A004300970004-4