 According to a postwar report written for the "Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute", the incomplete vessel was towed to Kiel, where she was used as a barracks ship.The modern naval historian René Greger states that the incomplete hull never left Hamburg.Some contemporary observers believed the ship had been completed for service with the German Navy, and British Admiral John Jellicoe, the commander of the Grand Fleet, received intelligence that the ship might have been in service by 1916.