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Wittelsbach-class battleship
The ''Wittelsbach''-class battleships were a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). They were the first battleships produced under the Navy Law of 1898. The class was composed of the lead ship, , , , and . All five ships were laid down between 1899 and 1900, and finished by 1904. The ships of the ''Wittelsbach'' class were similar in appearance to their predecessors of the , however, they had a flush main deck, as opposed to the lower quarterdeck of the ''Kaiser Friedrich'' class, and had a more extensive armor belt. Their armament was almost identical, though more efficiently arranged.
The ships were commissioned into the German fleet between 1902 and 1904, where they joined the I Squadron of the battle fleet. They were rapidly made obsolete by the launch of in 1906. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, they were no longer fit for front-line service, though they saw some limited duty in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy. In 1916 the five ships were disarmed and employed in secondary roles. ''Wittelsbach'', ''Wettin'', and ''Schwaben'' became training ships, ''Mecklenburg'' was used as a prison ship and later as a floating barracks, and ''Zähringen'' became a target ship. All of the ships save ''Zähringen'' were broken up in 1921–22. ''Zähringen'' was rebuilt as a radio-controlled target ship in the mid-1920s. During World War II, she was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1944 and scuttled in the final days of the war. She was eventually broken up ''in situ'' in 1949–50.
== Design ==
The ships of the ''Wittelsbach'' class were the first battleships built under the first Naval Law of 1898. The ships represented an incremental improvement over the preceding ''Kaiser Friedrich III'' class. They were equipped with the same armament of 24 cm guns, but were given an additional torpedo tube. They also had improved defensive capabilities, as they were protected by a more extensive armored belt. They also differed from the preceding ships in their main deck, the entire length of which was flush; in the ''Kaiser Friedrich III''-class ships, the quarterdeck was cut down.
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