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SMS Wettin was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Wittelsbach class of the Imperial German Navy. She was laid down in October 1899 and completed October 1902. She and her sister ships—Wittelsbach, Zähringen, Schwaben and Mecklenburg—were armed with a main battery of four 24 cm (9.4 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). These and the other ships of I Squadron underwent extensive annual training, as well as making goodwill visits to foreign countries. Wettin was decommissioned in June 1911 as dreadnought battleships began to enter service but was reactivated for duty as a gunnery training ship between December 1911 and mid-1914. In World War I, the Wittelsbach-class ships were mobilized and designated as IV Battle Squadron. Wettin saw limited duty in the Baltic Sea and played a minor role in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. The ship was withdrawn from active service in late 1915 due to crew shortages and the threat from British submarines. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
See WT:TFA#Fourth quarter 2018 blurbs. This is just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 19:19, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
The Featured Topic takes us up to 1041 characters ... I'm not generally trimming when a later edit takes us over the character limit, but if someone wants to trim it, that's fine. - Dank (push to talk) 00:32, 23 January 2020 (UTC)