sentences:  Those two ships, "Mecklenburg", and "Wettin" were stricken from the naval register in the early 1920s and thereafter broken up, but "Zähringen" was converted into a radio-controlled target ship, a role she filled until she was bombed and sunk by British bombers in 1944 during World War II.The wreck was eventually broken up in 1949–1950.The ships of the "Wittelsbach" class were the first battleships built under the first Naval Law of 1898 that had been passed through the efforts of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the State Secretary of the "Reichsmarineamt" (Imperial Navy Office).