The Port of Gdynia (Gotenhafen)
16th August 1944

Drydock

This image possibly shows the Dreadnought battleship The Schleswig-Holstein.
Torpedo nets can be seen at the top of the dry-dock
During the period in which this image was taken she was listed as a dormitory ship / training ship at Gdynia.

In September 1944 she returned to service as an anti-aircraft ship. On 19 December 1944, in Gdynia, she was struck by three bombs dropped by British planes, caught fire and sank in 39 feet of water. The ship was further damaged by her crew with scuttling charges in March, 1945. After World War II, she was raised by the Soviet Union and towed to Tallinn where she may have been renamed Borodino. She was scuttled near Osmussaar island in the Baltic Sea in 1948 and used as a target ship until the 1960s. The remains of the ship still exist
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