the Second World War. Schleswig-Holstein served for most of the war as a training ship; she was sunk while under refit in December 1944, and broken up in situ in January 1945. The other, , was mined and then scuttled in March 1945. A number of the inactive or disarmed pre-dreadnoughts were nevertheless sunk in action during World War II, such as the Greek pre-dreadnoughts and , bought from the U.S. Navy in 1914. While neither of the ships was in active service, they were both sunk by German dive bombers after the German invasion in 1941. In the Pacific, the U.S. Navy submarine sank the disarmed Japanese pre-dreadnought in May 1942. A veteran of the Battle of Tsushima, she was serving as a repair ship. Post World War II No pre-dreadnoughts served post–World War II as armed ships; the last serving pre-dreadnought was the former , which was used as a target ship by the Soviet Union into the early 1960s as the Tsel. The hull of the former served as a crane ship from 1920 until its scrapping in 1955. The hulk of the ex- was used as an ammunition barge at Guam until 1948, after which she was scrapped in 1956. Lone survivor The only pre-dreadnought preserved today is the Imperial Japanese Navy's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima, Mikasa, which is now located in Yokosuka, where she has been a museum ship since 1925. See also References Sources Beeler, John, Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870–1881. Caxton, London, 2003. Burt, R. A., British Battleships 1889–1904 Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. . Chesneau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. 1979. . Chesneau, Roger (ed). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway, 1980. . Forczyk, Robert. Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship; Yellow Sea 1904–05. Osprey, 2009. Gardiner, Robert and Lambert, Andrew Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship, 1815–1905. Conways, London, 2001, Roberts, J. "The Pre-Dreadnought Age" in Gardiner Steam, Steel and Shellfire. Campbell, J. "Naval Armaments and Armour" in Gardiner Steam, Steel and Shellfire. Griffiths, D. "Warship Machinery" in Gardiner, Steam, Steel and Shellfire. Gardiner, Robert. The Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906–45. Conways, London, 1992. Sumrall, R. The Battleship and Battlecruiser in Gardiner Eclipse of the Big Gun. Hill, Robert War at Sea in the Ironclad