SMS Iltis was the lead ship of the Iltis class of gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The ships were built to modernize the …

Scharnhorst and Gneisenau operated together for much of the early portion of World War II, including sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant shipping. During her first operation in …

SMS Yorck ("His Majesty's Ship Yorck") was the second and final ship of the Roon class of armored cruisers built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) as part of a major …

2019年7月31日 · The SMS Schleswig-Holstein was a storied vessel of the German Navy that managed to survive all of World War 1 and fight on through most of World War 2 before being …

Marine Service Squadron 25 was organized in New Caledonia on 18 November 1942, its mission to provide heavy maintenance and other support services to MAG-25 and subsequently SCAT. …

SMS Mainz was part of the Imperial German Navy's pre-World War 1 "Kolberg-class" which numbered four warships in all. These twin-masted, triple-funneled ships were classified as …

SMS Kaiser after the removal of her torpedo nets. Torpedo nets were removed from German warships within months of the Battle of Jutland. It was decided that the risk of them becoming …

2018年7月30日 · In 1906, the German Imperial Navy commissioned a second Dresden class light cruiser and named it the SMS Emden. Under the command of Captain Karl von Muller, the …

2023年5月3日 · When it was restored in late 1916, the Imperial German Navy’s SMS Seeadler was a floating anachronism: a fighting ship-of-sail in an age of steel battleships. Yet that didn’t …

SMS Blücher [a] was the last armored cruiser built by the German Empire. She was designed to match what German intelligence incorrectly believed to be the specifications of the British …