Sir,—It is easy to see how Pat Poland (HI 32.5, Sept./Oct. 2024, ‘When Cork’s lord mayor incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany’) mistook SMS Schleswig Holstein (and thus her sister, Schlesien,pictured on p. 41) for a pocket battleship. She belonged to the Deutschland class of pre-dreadnought battleships launched before the First World War. The Deutschland ... Read more
