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SMS Schwaben was the fourth ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy. Schwaben was laid down in Wilhelmshaven in 1900, and completed in April 1904. The five Wittelsbach-class vessels were the first capital ships built under the Navy Law of 1898, championed by Alfred von Tirpitz. Schwaben was armed with a main battery of four 24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The vessel spent most of 1904 to 1914 as a gunnery training ship, but frequently participated in large-scale fleet exercises. When World War I started, the Wittelsbach-class ships were mobilized as IV Battle Squadron and saw limited duty. The threat from British submarines forced the ship to withdraw to port. Schwaben then served as an engineering training ship for naval cadets. Reactivated in 1919, the ship was stricken from the navy list in March 1921 and sold for scrapping in that year. (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) 19:22, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
- Made a few tweaks for italics and links, but otherwise looks good. Parsecboy (talk) 19:26, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Parsecboy. I have had to make a couple of trims to keep it under the size limit, so you may want to look through it again. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:48, 17 January 2020 (UTC)