German Pre-Dreadnought Battleship SMS Elsass SMS Elsass was the second unit of the Braunschweig-class battleships (along with her sister ships Braunschweig, Lothringen, Hessen and Preussen) built for the Imperial German Navy. Named after the province of Alsace (Elsass in German), she was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in 1901, launched on Read more