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SMS Elsass was the second of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class in the Imperial German Navy. Launched in May 1903 and named for what was then a German province, the battleship was armed with four 28 cm (11 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The ship served in II Squadron until it was surpassed by new dreadnought battleships and decommissioned in 1913, but was reactivated a year later following the outbreak of World War I. Elsass saw action with VI Battle Squadron in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy, participating in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915 and engaging the Russian battleship Slava. In 1916, the ship was placed in reserve as a training ship because of crew shortages and the threat posed by British submarines. Elsass was modernized in 1923 and 1924 and served with the surface fleet until 1930, conducting training operations and visits to foreign ports. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
Pinging Parsecboy; we're doing blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in June, July and August 2018. Thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 00:25, 3 December 2019 (UTC)