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SMS Deutschland was a pre-dreadnought battleship, the first of five Deutschland-class ships built for the German Imperial Navy. Laid down in Kiel in June 1903 and launched in November 1904, the ship was commissioned a few months ahead of HMS Dreadnought, the first of a series of enhanced battleships that rendered Deutschland obsolete. Deutschland served as the flagship of the High Seas Fleet until 1913. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the ship participated in most of the fleet operations in the first two years of the war. These culminated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, where Deutschland briefly engaged several British battlecruisers before retreating. Having proven vulnerable against more modern battleships, Deutschland was assigned to coastal defense, and from 1917 to 1918 was used as a barracks ship in Wilhelmshaven. The ship was broken up for scrap by 1922. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
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Hi Parsecboy and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:50, 10 January 2020 (UTC)