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Excellent!

Amazingly beautiful art work. Great work there, and I hope to see more!

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Are you planning to do the pre-WW II mods?

Great ship DG!

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Thanks to everyone for the kind words, but let's not forget WhyMe in this, who originally started the started and did much of the base work.

And yes, I intend to do drawings for each ship throughout their complete careers.

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Despite being outdated from the very start, Deutschland still became the fleet’s flagship and kept that role until 1913, when she was replaced by the new battleship Friedrich der Große. After that, she was re-assigned to the II. squadron, of which she had been part before. During those years she and her sisters, with their old hull form, found themselves used as ice breakers in especially cold winters.

During those years Deutschland’s appearance changed a little bit: The searchlight next to the cranes where moved to elevated platform at the forward funnels and additional searchlight platforms were added on the masts. The compass platform was moved aft and the masts got new spotter platforms.


With the outbreak of the war, Deutschland was mostly on picket and cover duty near the mouth of the river Elbe, but also participated in some unsuccessful advanced against the British. The older ships would not be very useful in an actual battle and her crew allegedly called them ‘five-minutes-ships’, as that was the time the enemy needed to sink them: Four minutes to laugh at them and one minute to fight them. In 1915 Deutschland became the flagship of the II. Squadron und Rear-Admiral Franz Mauve, replacing the older pre-dreadnought Preussen.

She and her sisters participated in the Battle of Jutland. Due to their speed, they considerably hindered the movement of the entire German fleet, as Admiral Hipper was unwilling to leave them behind to the faster British ships. The old ships did not participate in the main action, firing only one salvo. In the early hours of the second day, her squadron came under attack by British destroyers. Deutschland could evade, but her sister Pommern was hit directly and sunk. The German fleet returned to German harbors later that day.


Deutschland resumed picket duty on her old station, occasionally switching between North Sea and the Baltic. In the autumn of 1917, Deutschland was moved to Kiel, where it was disarmed, removed from active duty and used as a barracks ship for the remainder of the war. After the war she was stricken in 1920, she was scrapped over the next two years.

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Excellent work!

Fantastic!

Great work DG_Alpha

Very nice work!

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