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Monday, 23 May 2016
German battleship SMS Prinsregent Luitpold to be fitted out with internal combustion and turbines according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1911-1912 no. 5
An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that the German battleship Ersatz Odin built under the 1910 budget at the Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany was to be fitted out with one internal combustion engine to drive the screw amidships, the screws at both sides were driven by turbines.(1)
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1. The SMS Prinzregent Luitpold of the Kaiser-class, laid down in October 1910, launched on 17 February 1912, commissioned on 19 August 1913,and scuttled by her own crew at Scap Flow, Orkney Islands on 21 June 1919, salvaged in 1931 and broken up in 1933.