Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Brandenburg-class battleship/archive1

TFA blurb review
I'm finishing up the blurbs for 2018 FACs, but I can come back and do this one later if no one beats me to it (nudge nudge). - Dank (push to talk) 21:03, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * To whom exactly are you directing this hint? :P Parsecboy (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * You'd do a fine job if you want to do it ... but it was directed at anyone watchlisting the FAC. - Dank (push to talk) 21:07, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm finished with 2018 now and starting 4th quarter 2017. - Dank (push to talk) 14:33, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

The Brandenburg class consisted of the pre-dreadnought battleships SMS Brandenburg, SMS Wörth, SMS Weissenburg, and SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm. Built from 1890 to 1894 as the Imperial German Navy's first ocean-going capital ships in nearly two decades, they were armed with six 28 cm guns. They initially served with I Squadron of the German fleet, conducting training exercises and visiting foreign countries, frequently in company with Kaiser Wilhelm II aboard his yacht. Brandenburg and Wörth were laid up in 1912. Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm and Weissenburg were sold in 1910 to the Ottoman Navy and renamed Barbaros Hayreddin and Turgut Reis; they saw extensive service during the First Balkan War, providing fire support in Thrace and engaging the Greek fleet at the battles of Elli and Lemnos in 1912 and 1913. All four ships were reactivated as guard ships during World War I. Barbaros Hayreddin was sunk by the British submarine HMS E11 in 1915 with heavy loss of life.

I see the blurb is currently 1041 characters. (Max is now roughly 1025; we used to not count the Featured Topic text.) - Dank (push to talk) 01:48, 31 July 2023 (UTC)