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Sunday, 23 April 2023

The location of the German warships at Kiel in April 1919

Nassau-class including Rheinland including Westfalen

Helgoland-class including Oldenburg

Braunschweig-class including Elsass

Deutschland-class including Hannover, Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein

Wittelsbach-class including Mecklenburg

Battleships Rheinland dismantled and her armor removed, further more the Westphalen, Oldenburg and Helgoland and the old battle ships Braunschweig mine sweepers base ship, Elsass, Hanhover, K. Friedrich III, K. Wilhelm der Grosse, Mecklenburg, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein, Hessen, Baden (ex), Acheron, Uranus, Mars fitted out as training ships or hulks with their guns removed. Cruisers the old Roon, Furst Bismarck and Prinz Heinrich, the light cruisers Strasburg disarmed, and fitting out as tenders for minesweepers Stralsund, Augsburg, Kulberg, Stuttgart, Berlin and Munchen and the old light cruisers Amazone, Hansa, Lubeck, Nymphe, Thetis, Hertha, Freya, Medusa and Veneta. Minelayers Albatross, Hertha, Odin, Hochland (?), auxiliary ships, former 1,200 ton passenger ships and decommissioned. 12 Gunboats including mine depot Condor, Hyena and Triton serving as buoy layers etc., tender Nordsee and training ship for the mine service Pelikan. Destroyers S-14, 29, 135, H-147, B-97, 98, V-105, 106, 108 and 50 T’s of which the numbers are comprised between Y-94 and T-05, 53 torpedo boats of the series A,D and T commissioned on under reconstruction into minesweepers. Minesweepers M-60, FM-1, 2, 4, 20 and 25.

Source

Information concerning the U.S. Navy and other navies. Office of Naval Intelligence July, 1919 

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