Deutschland Class Battleship (1904)
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Germany completed five Deutschland Class Battleships between 1906 and 1908. They were her last pre-dreadnought ships.
| Overview of 5 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Deutschland | Germaniawerft, Kiel | 1920 | 19 Nov, 1904 | Broken up 1922 | |
| Hannover | Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven | Jul, 1911 | 29 Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1910 | Broken up 1946 |
| Pommern | AG Vulcan Stettin | 1922 | 2 Dec, 1905 | Torpedoed 1 Jun, 1916 | |
| Schlesien | Schichau-Werke, Danzig | Jul, 1912 | 28 May, 1906 | Mined 3 May, 1945 | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Germaniawerft, Kiel | 1918 | 17 Dec, 1906 | Scuttled 21 Mar, 1944 | |
Communications
The plan drawings for Schleswig-Holstein depict what appears to be a pneumatic tube system ("rohrpostanlage") to deliver messages from a compartment near the bridge (wireless office?) to a compartment well aft. Hand-drawn alterations suggest that it was being considered to allow delivery to/from the forward station to be altered by a switch to direct payloads to a compartment below the forward superstructure.[1]
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