Battleships Nassau, Ostfriesland, Posen and Thüringen still armed but decommissioned, Deutschland disarmed now base ship for flotilla, Lotharingen and Preussen serving as seagoing base ship with a superstructure for housing 12 type F motor minesweepers, Schwaben, 4-15 still in place but sold, Wettin hospital ship for minesweepers and disarmed, Wittlesbach base ship for minesweepers and disarmed, K. Barbarossa and K. Karl der Grosse both hulked and armor removed and the K. Wilhelm II hulked and serving as floating headquarters of commodore Harder commanding the defence forces of the North Sea. Coastal defence ships Odin, base ship for minesweepers and Aegir, Heindall and Siegfried hulked. Light cruisers Koningsberg and Pillau guns, torpedo tubes and armor belt removed, Graudenz lying in the basin with her guns still on board but decommissioned, Regensburg still with guns, decommissioned, postal service with Scapa Flow, Hamburg still with guns but decommissioned, Arcona guns removed serving as seagoing depot ship for minesweepers and the Niobe guns removed and decommissioned. 6 Gunboats including Primula transformed passenger ship attached to minesweeper flotilla. Destroyers H-147, S-139, 133-135, C-138, G-95, V-79, S-63, V-28, 26, G-11, 10, 8, 7, V1-3 and 5-6, T-197-198, 144, 182-183, 178, 176, 144, 139, 148, 142, 137, 135, 113, 98,96; 43 type A and I torpedo boats, the latest of these boats served as escorts. The oldest and newest boats served as minesweepers and the old ones as distpatch boats. 69 Minesweepers of smal draught with a coal bunker capacity too small for operating far from the coastline and were described as failured. 32 Vedettes, 18 with U-2 and 14 with F motors.
Source
Information concerning the U.S. Navy and other navies. Office of Naval Intelligence July, 1919
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