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    SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), part of the two-ship Scharnhorst class. Named for the earlier screw...
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  • ships named after August von Gneisenau: SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900 SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser...
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    Hamburg, Germany. She was the lead ship of her class, which included SMS Gneisenau. Scharnhorst and her sister were enlarged versions of the preceding...
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    SMS Gneisenau was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s. The ship was named after the Prussian...
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    commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers SMS Nürnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and the colliers...
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    August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the...
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    Invincible and Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau; despite numerous hits by the German ships, Inflexible and...
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    commanding the armoured cruisers SMS Gneisenau and SMS Scharnhorst and three light cruisers SMS Emden, SMS Nürnberg, and SMS Leipzig won the battle by defeating...
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    sister ship Invincible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau during the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Inflexible bombarded...
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    Invincible and Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau almost without damage to themselves, despite numerous hits...
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  • other two ships, Ersatz Gneisenau, and Ersatz Scharnhorst, were considered to be replacements for the armored cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, both of...
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    in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million marks each. SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau followed, between 1904 and 1908, and cost an estimated for...
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    Scharnhorst-class cruiser SMS Scharnhorst SMS Gneisenau Dresden-class cruiser SMS Emden Bremen-class cruiser SMS Leipzig Königsberg-class cruiser SMS Nürnberg Also...
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    destroy the radio station at Port Stanley and sent the armoured cruiser SMS Gneisenau and the light cruiser Nürnberg to see if the harbour was clear of British...
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    occupation and hastened to Samoa with the armored cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau, arriving off Apia on 14 September 1914. He determined however...
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    "Imperial Captains." On 6 March 1908, Hipper took command of the new cruiser Gneisenau. He was tasked with conducting the shakedown cruise, after which the ship...
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    SMS Leipzig ("His Majesty's Ship Leipzig") was the sixth of seven Bremen-class cruisers of the Imperial German Navy, named after the city of Leipzig....
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    fired at extreme range (13,500 yards, 12,300 m) on the German cruiser SMS Gneisenau, and while the only hit was from an inert practice shell which had been...
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    Suffolk 16 Nov: T.H. Camp November (unknown date): USS Yosemite 16 Dec: SMS Gneisenau Unknown date: Copenhagen, Manchester Other incidents 1 Jan: Prins van...
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    Knorr. The squadron was composed of the corvettes SMS Bismarck (flagship), SMS Gneisenau, SMS Ariadne, SMS Olga and the steam tender Adler. The squadron departed...
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    by the Imperial Navy. The class comprised two ships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. They were larger than the Roon class that preceded them; the extra size...
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  • aboard the cruiser SMS Gneisenau. He was promoted to Korvettenkapitän on 16 October 1909. He served as first officer of the battleship SMS Schlesien for a...
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    a stoker and later as a pump specialist on board the armoured cruiser Gneisenau of the German East-Asia fleet in Qingdao (Tsingtau). He became a contemporary...
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    needed] At the Battle of Coronel, the German armored cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau scored a resounding victory over British naval forces from...
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    in the Battle of Coronel by the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau. Her entire complement of 900 was lost. 900 Navy 1918  Italy...
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    to attack British and Allied shipping. He had with him SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Gneisenau and SMS Emden and was quickly joined by Nurnberg and two auxiliary...
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    SMS Nürnberg ("His Majesty's Ship Nürnberg"), named after the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, was a Königsberg-class light cruiser built for the German Imperial...
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    von Spee's East Asia Squadron with its armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau. Therefore, it was arranged that the convoy would liaise at...
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    brig SMS Musquito. He was then a company officer in the cabin boys' department and served as a watch officer on the training ship SMS Gneisenau from 1...
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