After the end of hostilities, "V44" was interned at Scapa Flow in accordance with the terms of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. On 21 June 1919, the German fleet interned at Scapa scuttled itself, but British forces managed to beach several of the ships before they could sink, including "V44", which was beached on the south side of Fara. The Treaty of Versailles allocated a battleship, a cruiser and three torpedo boats to Britain as "Propaganda ships", which could be used for a short period of time for experimental purposes or as targets. "V44" was one of these ships. On 8 December 1920, "V44" was used as a target by the monitor in order to test the effectiveness of new weapons and shells. "V44" was hit by four 6-inch (152 mm), two 4.7-inch (120 mm) and eight 4-inch (102 mm) shells, which caused heavy flooding, and "V44" was towed to Portsmouth harbour and beached (near the torpedo boat , used as a target by "Terror" on 13 October that year) to avoid sinking. "V44" was sold for scrap to TW Ward on 30 March 1921, but they took little action to break up the ship, and "V44" (along with "V82") was sold again, to the shipbreaking yard Pounds, in 1927. The two ships were partly broken up in-situ during the late 1920s and early 1930s, with the remains of the ships left in the mud banks. The remnants of the two ships remain visible at low tide in 2019.