Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901)
SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901)[edit]
- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 12, 2024 by - Dank (push to talk) 01:12, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
SMS Prinz Adalbert was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine, and was named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, former Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Navy. Her class included a second ship, Friedrich Carl, and she was built at the Imperial Dockyard in Kiel. Her keel was laid in April 1900 and she was commissioned on 12 January 1904. She served as a gunnery training ship and made several visits to foreign countries. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914 she served in the Baltic Sea, and after her sister ship was sunk in November 1914, she became the flagship of the cruiser squadron in the Baltic, conducting operations against Russian forces. She was torpedoed twice by British submarines in 1915, and on the second occasion she sank quickly with heavy loss of life; only three men were rescued from a crew of 675. This was the worst German naval disaster in the Baltic during the war. (This article is part of a featured topic: Armored cruisers of Germany.)
- Most recent similar article(s): French battleship Bouvet is scheduled for December 29.
- Main editors: Parsecboy
- Promoted: October 15, 2015
- Reasons for nomination: 12 January 2024 is the 120th anniversary of the ship's commissioning. There are articles on this ship in ten language WPs other than en WP, and the Turkish one is featured. There is a significant backlog of featured ship articles that have not been TFA yet.
- Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:00, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Peacemaker67, I added the featured topic notification ... now we're at 1059 characters. Can you get it down to 1025? - Dank (push to talk) 20:13, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
- G'day Dan, now 1015. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Peacemaker67, I added the featured topic notification ... now we're at 1059 characters. Can you get it down to 1025? - Dank (push to talk) 20:13, 26 November 2023 (UTC)