German armoured cruiser SMS Blücher seemed to be heavier damaged as first believed according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1913-1914 no. 6

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An item reported that the German armoured cruiser Blücher grounded on 30 May still did not leave the shipyard at Kiel, Germany which pointed out that the damage should be severe. A newspaper claimed that at port side the hull was torn over a distance of 85 metres and at starboard over 55 metres and that 30-40 thrushes were broken.

Note
1. Designed as an answer to the British battle cruisers of the Invincible-class but in fact no match for the successors of the armoured cruisers. It became just after the building was ordered clear that these British battle cruisers were armed with 8-30,5 cm guns and not as earlier was believed 6/8-23cm guns. Ordered as the ‘E’ after the authorisation by the Reichstag on 26 May 1906 of the needed budget, was she laid down on 21 February 1907 at the Kaiserliche Werft at Kiel, Germany, launched on 11 April 1908 and commissioned on 1 October a year later was she sunk during the battle of Dogger Bank against British naval forces on 24 January 1915.