The Helgoland class was the second class of German dreadnought battleships. Constructed from 1908 to 1912, the class comprised four ships:Helgoland, the lead ship; Oldenburg; Ostfriesland; and Thüringen. The ships served as a unit in I Division, I Battle Squadron alongside the Nassau-class ships. They saw combat during World War I, including the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea. All four survived the war, but were not taken as part of the German fleet that was interned at Scapa Flow.
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The Helgoland class was the second class of German dreadnought battleships. Constructed from 1908 to 1912, the class comprised four ships: Helgoland, the lead ship; Oldenburg; Ostfriesland; and Thüringen. The ships served as a unit in I Division, I Battle Squadron alongside the Nassau-class ships in II Division of the squadron. They saw combat during World War I, including the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea. All four survived the war, but were not taken as part of the German fleet that was interned at Scapa Flow. When the German ships were scuttled, the four Helgolands were ceded as war reparations to the victorious Allied powers in the sunken ships’ stead. Helg Roland and Oldenburg were allotted to Britain and Japan respectively, and broken up in 1921. Thü Ringen was delivered to France in 1920, and was used as a target ship for the French navy. The ship was eventually broken up between 1923 and 1933. It was replaced by the SMS SMS Beowulf Frithjand, the unique coastal defense ship of the Oldenburg classes, and the SMS Beowulf-Siegfried, the coastal defense ships of the Siegfried and Brand classes, as well as the SMS Brand-class battleships in the 1920s and 1930s. The SMS Bremen was the last of the two classes of ships to be built, and it was also the last to be scrapped in the 1930s, in favor of a new, more powerful battleship, the SMS SMS Geschwanden, which was built in the 1940s and 1950s by the Kaiser Wilhelm II Navy.
The SS Sachsen-class had been replaced by three of the four Sachclads-class ironclads, three of which were replaced by SMS Ostfrieslands, and one of the SMS-Sachsens-class, SMS Mittelfriesland, which had been built in 1903 and 1904. The last of these ships was the SS Olympia, which went into service in the 1950s and was decommissioned in the 1970s. It is the only German battleship to have survived the Second World War and the only one to do so in the modern era of high-tech, high-powered battleships, the SS “Kriegsmarine” (or “Kaiserliche Marine” or “Kaiserswehr” (KM) class. The Kriegsfreiherr von Tirpitz ordered the Construction Department to prepare a design with 30. 5 cm guns and 320 mm thick belt armor. The design was approved by the First Amendment to the Naval Law of 1906. The three funnels that were closely arranged, compared to the two larger funnels of the previous class, were the same as the previous Nassaus.
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