Braunschweig-class battleship

The Braunschweig-class battleships were a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Kaiserliche Marine built in the early 1900s. They were the first class of battleships authorized under the Second Naval Law, a major naval expansion program. Less than two years after the first members of the class entered service, the ships were rendered obsolescent by the British all-big-gun...