SMS Magdeburg ("His Majesty's Ship Magdeburg") was the lead ship of the Magdeburg class of light cruisers in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
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Cöln-class cruiser (redirect from SMS Magdeburg (1917))
Cöln and Dresden. Five more were launched, but not completed: Wiesbaden, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Rostock and Frauenlob, while another three were laid down but...
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The Magdeburg class of light cruisers was a group of four ships built for the Imperial German Navy. The class comprised SMS Magdeburg, the lead ship,...
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Germany were named Magdeburg after the city of Magdeburg, Germany: SMS Magdeburg, a Magdeburg-class light cruiser, launched 1911 SMS Magdeburg (1917) a Cöln-class...
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Admiralty. The Russians had seized this material from the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg after it ran aground off the Estonian coast on 26 August 1914. The Russians...
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SMS G39 SMS G40 SMS G41 SMS G42 SMS V43 SMS V44 SMS V45 SMS V46 SMS V47 SMS V48 SMS S49 SMS S50 SMS S51 SMS S52 SMS S53 SMS S54 SMS S55 SMS S56 SMS S57...
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decode naval traffic, which had been retrieved from the wrecked cruiser SMS Magdeburg by the Russians, who passed it to the British. Disclosure of the telegram...
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55735 Magdeburg, an asteroid Ships: Magdeburg-class cruiser, a class of German Imperial Navy ships SMS Magdeburg, a German First World War light cruiser...
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obtained a copy of the main German codebook from the light cruiser SMS Magdeburg, which had been boarded by the Russian Navy after the ship ran aground...
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immediately involved in warfare. On August 2 German warships SMS Augsburg and SMS Magdeburg shelled port city Liepāja, causing it light damage. On August...
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Kaiserlichen Marine (SKM) was captured from the German light cruiser SMS Magdeburg after she ran aground in the Baltic Sea on 26 August 1914. The German-Australian...
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60 years. Following the outbreak of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg shelled Liepāja (then part of Russia), and other vessels laid mines...
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SMS Mainz was a Kolberg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) during the First World War. She had three sister ships, SMS Kolberg...
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Battle of Dogger Bank, the SMS Pommern incident when Wilhelm Tranow succeeded in breaking their own cipher, the SMS Magdeburg incident and the latter years...
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in Poland. A naval action took place off Åland and a German cruiser SMS Magdeburg ran aground and was intercepted by a Russian squadron. On 3 September...
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[page needed] A pair of Russian battle cruisers shelled German cruiser SMS Magdeburg after she ran aground on an island in the Gulf of Finland, killing 15...
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Admiral Sampson, SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, SMS Magdeburg 28 Aug: SMS Ariadne, SMS Cöln, SMS Mainz, SMS V187 31 Aug: Shirotae Other incidents 5 Aug:...
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SMS Ariadne was the fifth member of the ten-ship Gazelle class of light cruisers that were built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in...
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SMS D8 (Leader) SMS T25 SMS T29 SMS T31 SMS T33 SMS T34 SMS T35 SMS T36 SMS T37 SMS T40 SMS T41 SMS T71 SMS T72 SMS T73 Minelayers SMS Nautilus SMS Albatross...
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intentions of German warships. The Russian capture of the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg and its code books early on in the war assisted the work of him and...
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Admiral Sampson, SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, SMS Magdeburg 28 Aug: SMS Ariadne, SMS Cöln, SMS Mainz, SMS V187 31 Aug: Shirotae Other incidents 5 Aug:...
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of luck, the SKM codebook was obtained from the German Light cruiser Magdeburg, which ran aground on the island of Odensholm off the coast of Russian-controlled...
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Admiral Sampson, SMS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, SMS Magdeburg 28 Aug: SMS Ariadne, SMS Cöln, SMS Mainz, SMS V187 31 Aug: Shirotae Other incidents 5 Aug:...
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1914 when as part of a reconnaissance squadron, the light cruiser SMS Magdeburg ran aground in heavy fog in the Gulf of Finland. The other German ships...
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SMS V187 was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard at Stettin between 1910 and 1911 and...
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SMS Zenta was the lead ship of the Zenta class of protected cruisers built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the late 1890s. The class included two other...
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tasked with bringing the codebooks salvaged from the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg to Britain and was attached to the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet until 1915...
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won a major intelligence victory that month when the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg ran aground in Russian territory and they were able to recover German...
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war, Amphion and her destroyers encountered and sank a German minelayer, SMS Königin Luise, but not before she had laid many of her mines. While returning...
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1914, together with Pallada, she captured the German light cruiser SMS Magdeburg off of Osmussaar on the north coast of Estonia. The German crew scuttled...
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