Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/SMS Brandenburg/archive1

TFA blurb review
Parsecboy (and anyone else interested): see my comments over at WT:Featured article candidates/Greek battleship Salamis/archive1. - Dank (push to talk) 01:37, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

SMS Brandenburg was the lead ship of the Brandenburg class of pre-dreadnought battleships, built in the early 1890s, and was the first modern battleship of the German Imperial Navy. The ship was laid down in 1890, launched in 1891, and commissioned on 19 November 1893. The four ships of the class were unique for their time in carring six heavy guns instead of the four that were standard in other navies. Brandenburg's first 20 years of service were generally limited to training exercises to develop German naval doctrine, and goodwill visits to foreign ports. The ship saw one overseas deployment: to China in 1900 and 1901, during the Boxer Rebellion. In the early 1900s, all four ships were heavily rebuilt. The aging vessel was obsolete by the start of World War I and only served as a coastal defense ship, before being withdrawn from active service in December 1915 and converted into a barracks ship. Brandenburg was scrapped in 1920.

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Hi and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:59, 19 February 2020 (UTC)