Post by Syzmo on Apr 5, 2022 16:09:14 GMT
Baden was the second and final Bayern-class super-dreadnought of the Imperial German Navy to be completed. The first German class to use 15” guns, Baden became the flagship of the High Seas Fleet. Not originally selected for internment, she was chosen as a substitute for the incomplete battlecruiser Mackensen. She survived the "Grand Scuttle" and was inspected, then expended by the Royal Navy as a gunnery target in 1921. Her counterflooding equipment was found to be more efficient than contemporary British systems. Had she been retained she would have been modernized in line with what other nations did in the interwar period.
