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Monday 4 March 2013
Organisation of the German Hochseeflotte according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1911-1912 no. 8
An item reported that since 1 October the German so-called Hochseeflotte consisted of the flagship Deutschland, the 1st squadron of 7 dreadnoughts namely Ostfriesland, Thüringen, Helgoland, Westfalen, Nassau, Rheinland and Posen and the armoured ship Elsasz for which already a replacement was ordered and the 2nd squadron consisting of the armoured ships Preusen, Hannover, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein, Lothringen, Braunwschweig, Hessen and Pommern. Further more were added the cruisers Moltke, von der Tann and Yorck and the turbine cruisers Mainz , Kolberg, Dresden , Lübeck, Stettin and Cöln. The reserve division for the North Sea consisted of the Wittelsbach as core and her sister ships.