Wikipedia article of the day for August 19, 2026

The Wikipedia article of the day for August 19, 2026 is SMS Schwaben.
SMS Schwaben was the fourth of five ships of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy. Built at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven, she was laid down in 1900 and completed in April 1904. Possessing a main battery of four 24-centimeter (9.4 in) guns, the ship had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Schwaben spent her early career as a gunnery training ship or participating in large-scale fleet exercises. At the start of World War I in August 1914, the sister ships were mobilized as IV Battle Squadron. Schwaben served in the North Sea and then the Baltic Sea until the threat from British submarines forced her to withdraw in 1916. For the remainder of the war, she was an engineering training ship for navy cadets. After the war, she was retained as a depot ship for F-type minesweepers in the Baltic from 1919 until June 1920, but was stricken from the navy list in March 1921 and sold for scrap. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)