Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/SMS Lothringen

SMS Lothringen

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 27, 2024  by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:50, 23 March 2024 (UTC)



SMS Lothringen was the last of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig-class battleship built for the Imperial German Navy. Launched in May 1904, she was named for the then-German province of Lothringen. The ship was armed with a battery of four 28 cm guns and had a top speed of 18 kn. She was to be replaced in July 1914 by dreadnought battleships but World War I prevented her retirement. The ship and the rest of II Squadron joined the dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet to support a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby in December 1914. She primarily served as a guard ship in the German Bight; in poor condition by 1916, she was withdrawn from fleet service in February. She thereafter patrolled the Danish straits until replaced by the battleship SMS Hannover in September 1917. After the war, she was converted into a depot ship for F-type minesweepers and placed in reserve in March 1920.
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 * Promoted: April 15, 2019
 * Reasons for nomination: 120th anniversary of launch. Blurb taken from article's FAC talk page.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 18:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Coordinator comment: the blurb is too long, at 1,086 characters including spaces. It needs to be in the range 925 - 1,025. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I have done a ce to make it shorter. Z1720 (talk) 20:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC)