 Niobe was among the ships permitted by the Treaty of Versailles after the end of the war , and so she continued on in service with the newly reorganized Reichsmarine . During this period , she was significantly modernized ; her old ram bow was replaced with a clipper bow . Her old 10 @.@ 5 cm SK L / 40 guns were replaced with newer SK L / 45 guns in U @-@ boat mountings and two 50 cm ( 20 in ) torpedo tubes in deck @-@ mounted launchers were installed . On 24 June 1925 , Niobe was stricken from the naval register and sold to the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ( later Yugoslavia ) . 
