Edited sentence: As a result, the four Nassau class ships were ceded to the various Allied powers as replacements for the ships that had been sunk.Following the German collapse in November 1918, a significant portion of the High Seas Fleet was interned in Scapa Flow.Nassau and her four sisters were not among the ships listed for internment, so they remained in German ports.Nassau was awarded to Japan on 7 April 1920, though the Japanese had no need for the ship.On 21 June 1919, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, under the mistaken impression that the Armistice would expire at noon that day, ordered his ships be scuttled to prevent their seizure by the British.They therefore sold her in June 1920 to British ship-breakers, who scrapped the ship in Dordrecht