sentences:  Its sides were only 140 mm thick; the roof was 30 mm thick.The ships's armor layout compared favorably to many foreign contemporaries; they were protected similarly to the British - and s, and while their belts were thinner than those of the French or the Russian , they did not suffer from the unarmored (and very vulnerable) hulls above the belt that characterized the French and Russian battleships.All of the ships of the "Wittelsbach" class save "Schwaben" were assigned to I Squadron on entering service; "Schwaben" was instead assigned to the Training Squadron at Tirpitz's insistence.