GWG26 BB Braunschweig Class (1:2400)

This pack contains one BB Braunschweig class; Pre-Dreadnought Battleship.

Class of five pre-dreadnought battleships commissioned between 1901 and 1906.

Primary service was in the Baltic facing the Russian fleet and auxiliary functions.

SMS Hessen was present at the Battle of Jutland alongside the Deutchland class pre-dreads.

By 1917 all had been relegated to accommodation, training, or submarine flotilla service duties. Four of the class had been stricken by 1931, the Heaasen remaining and serving as a target ship. She was handed over to the Soviet navy in 1946 and finally scrapped in 1960.