Instead, equipment and work crews were shipped to the fjord from German ports.
The two ships then put in at the German port of Wilhelmshaven for a goodwill visit.
Shortly afterwards, another force occupied the German port of Lüderitz.
This "Dutchman" is played out in the underbelly of a German port.
The German port had a reassuring grittiness to it.
Nassau and her three sisters were not among the ships listed for internment, so they remained in German ports.
The weapon is thought to have been introduced there in the mid-1800s by foreign sailors visiting North German ports.
She'd already been at sea for three days, having departed the German port early on Sunday.
German ports, at any rate, are currently enjoying impressive growth, and doing so without this directive.
Individual aircraft attacked oil tanks in German ports.