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The Deutschland class was a group of five battleships built for the German Imperial Navy. The class comprised Deutschland, Hannover, Pommern, Schlesien, and Schleswig-Holstein. They were completed after the launch of the British all-big-gun battleship HMS Dreadnought in 1906, meaning they were obsolescent before entering service. During World War I, all five ships saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, despite their inferiority to British battleships. In a confused night action, Pommern was torpedoed and sunk by a British destroyer. The four surviving ships were then removed from front-line service and used for coastal defense. After Germany's defeat, they were retained in service. Deutschland was broken up in 1920–1922, but the others were modernized in the mid-1920s. Hannover was decommissioned in 1931, while Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein both saw limited duty during World War II and were both sunk near the end of the war. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
Hi Parsecboy and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:54, 22 June 2021 (UTC)