After completing fitting-out work, dockyard sea trials began on 19 February 1901, followed by acceptance trials that started on 18 March.
A year-long gap in work at Portsmouth dockyard would be an "additional blow" to the community, the Conservative MP for Gosport has said.
After returning to Germany in 1899, she went into drydock at the Imperial Dockyard in Wilhelmshaven for modernization; work lasted until 1902.
The damage forced her to be transferred to Genoa for repair work, since the dockyard in La Spezia had also been damaged by the attack.
The day before the squadron left Wilhelmshaven, Batsch complained to General Albrecht von Stosch, the chief of the Kaiserliche Marine, that a significant number of dockyard workers were still finishing work on Grosser Kurfürst.
A single High-Angle Control System would have been fitted to control these guns, but the dockyard was overwhelmed with other work and couldn't begin to design the changes until July 1938.
Lloyd's father, Ron, worked at the dockyard in the 60s.
Between times they worked in the dockyard or as casual labourers.
The threat of closures of admiralty work on the dockyards was an obvious danger to the island's economy, and to Mintoff's supporters above all.
