sentences:  Nevertheless, she was not without critics; "Vizeadmiral" ("VAdm"—Vice Admiral) Albert Hopman referred to the ship as "cheap, but bad" in his memoirs "Logbuch eines Seeoffiziers" (Log of a Sea Officer).The naval historians Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, and Hans-Otto Steinmetz regard Hopman's criticism as an exaggeration, pointing out that "Prinz Heinrich" compared well to foreign contemporaries like the French , the Russian , and the Italian , though she was inferior to British designs.She nevertheless spent only four years in active service in peacetime before being replaced with newer, more powerful cruisers.