von Roon. She was built at the Kaiserliche Werft in Kiel, being laid down in August 1902, launched in June 1903, and commissioned in April 1906. The...
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List of ships of the Imperial German Navy (redirect from Seiner Majestaet Schiff)
1901 Roon class (10,000 tons, 4 x 21 cm guns) SMS Roon, 1903 SMS Yorck, 1904 Scharnhorst class (11,600 tons, 8 x 21 cm guns) SMS Scharnhorst, 1906 SMS Gneisenau...
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S142 and S149 escorting the cruisers Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Heinrich and Roon. The operation encountered heavy Russian opposition, and was abandoned, with...
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commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon-class armoured cruisers commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million marks each. SMS Scharnhorst...
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SMS Scharnhorst (category 1906 ships)
SMS Gneisenau. Scharnhorst and her sister were enlarged versions of the preceding Roon class; they were equipped with a greater number of main guns and were capable...
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was Krupp cemented and nickel steel. Moltke replaced the armored cruiser Roon in I Scouting Group on 30 September 1911. On 19 April 1912, Moltke and light...
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minelaying operation, codenamed V, on 20 June. Escorted by the armored cruisers Roon, Prinz Heinrich, and Prinz Adalbert and the light cruisers Augsburg and Lübeck...
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SMS G135 (category 1906 ships)
SMS G135{{efn"SMS" stands for German: Seiner Majestät Schiff, lit. 'His Majesty's Ship'}} was a S90-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. G135...
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waters and recalled Roon and Lübeck. Albatross was grounded off Gotland and Augsburg escaped, and the Russian squadron briefly engaged Roon before both sides...
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SMS Gneisenau (category 1906 ships)
marked a significant increase in combat power over their predecessors, the Roon class, being more heavily armed and armored. These improvements were made...
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Helgoland left dock; her berth was then filled by the armored cruiser SMS Roon. On 10 February, Helgoland and the rest of I Squadron sailed out of Wilhelmshaven...
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from 2 March to 14 April 1907, after which she joined the armored cruiser Roon, which had sailed from Germany to represent the country at the Jamestown...
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Adalbert-class cruisers were sunk in the Baltic Sea. Only Prinz Heinrich and Roon survived the war; both were scrapped in the early 1920s. Starting in the...
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Renaissance Revival style with a tower. It was sold in 1942 to Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau and when the company was broken up into its constituent...
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commander, under the mistaken assumption that the German armored cruisers Roon and Prinz Heinrich were present, did not attack and both forces and withdrew...
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were interrupted on 26 August, when the squadron and the armored cruisers Roon and Prinz Adalbert and the light cruiser Gazelle were sent to rescue the...
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recalled Roon and Lübeck. Albatross was grounded off Gotland and Augsburg escaped, and the Russian squadron briefly engaged Lübeck and Roon before both...
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fleet's main reconnaissance force. There she replaced the armored cruiser SMS Roon, which had been decommissioned on 22 September. In early November, the ships...
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defeated in detail. At 06:59 on 16 December, Hamburg, the armored cruiser Roon, and the light cruiser Stuttgart encountered British destroyers under Commander...
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