 Stuttgart was used as a gunnery training ship from her commissioning to the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 , when she was mobilized into the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet . There , she saw action at the Battle of Jutland , where she engaged the British cruiser HMS Dublin . Stuttgart was not damaged during the battle . She was converted into a seaplane tender in 1918 , and after the end of the war , was surrendered to Britain as a war prize in 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap . 
