User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-13740085-20160412165408

So I was reading up on SMS Baden the sole German capital ship to survive Scapa Flow, and apparently the British ran a bunch of tests and drills on it to see her capabilities.

She took 17 15" shells from what could only be called point-blank range (500 yards) to test the post-Jutland shells, which penetrated her thinner armor sections. And on a second round, shrugged off AP shells and airplane bombs.

Her guns were also found to be capable of reloading 13 seconds faster than the Queen Elizabeths.

One British commander that lived aboard Baden when they were examining the ship remark that she was more advanced than any comparable Royal Navy ship.

And yet she never fired her guns in anger.