sentences:  The German experience at Jutland demonstrated that pre-dreadnoughts had no place in a fleet action with dreadnoughts, and so the "Deutschland"s spent the rest of 1916 on coastal defense duty in the Elbe and occasionally in the Danish straits.In August 1917, II Battle Squadron was disbanded and most of the ships were reduced to secondary duties, being partially disarmed to free up guns for use ashore.