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Featured articleGerman torpedo boat Albatros is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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January 11, 2019WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 11, 2018.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that despite clear orders to fire only if fired upon, the German torpedo boat Albatros crippled the Norwegian ship Pol III after being rammed, thus firing the first shot of the Norwegian Campaign?
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I suggest that a new sentence be added to the end of the initial "Construction and career" section explaining that the Reichsmarine became the Kriegsmarine in 1935. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:00, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nice idea, done. L293D ( • ) 12:22, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WWII

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I find some of the wording re the Norwegian action to be at once odd and POV in that it implies wrongdoing on the part of the Germans. 'Despite clear orders...to fire only if fired upon...'. I'm sure that had I been in command of the German craft, I would have considered being rammed an innately hostile act and the constructive equivalent of being fired upon.Toyokuni3 (talk) 23:57, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quite honestly, I'm not sure that it was really being rammed, vs. a glancing contact. But one source says rammed...--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:19, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

fate of the wreck

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Is it still rusting where it ran aground, or was it later scrapped? 50.111.3.9 (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

None of my sources mentioned its ultimate fate.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:07, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]