The Prussian Navy (German: Preußische Marine), officially the Royal Prussian Navy (German: Königlich Preußische Marine), was the naval force of the Kingdom...
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represented by the Hanseatic League and the Brandenburg Navy, later Prussian Navy. The modern German Navy traces its roots back to the Reichsflotte (Imperial...
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Navy (Norddeutsche Bundesmarine or Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes), was the Navy of the North German Confederation, formed out of the Prussian Navy in...
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for the Prussian Navy in the 1860s. The class comprised five ships, and were the first major steam-powered warships ordered for the Prussian Navy. In the...
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Vineta was a member of the Arcona class of steam frigates built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The class comprised five ships, and...
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for the Prussian Navy in the 1860s. The class comprised five ships, and were the first major steam-powered warships ordered for the Prussian Navy. In the...
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was the lead ship of the Arcona class of steam frigates built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The class comprised five ships, and...
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small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which was mainly for coast defence. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded the navy. The key...
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Prussia (disambiguation) (redirect from Prussian people)
body under changing names (1817–2004) Prussian Navy, navy of the Kingdom of Prussia Prussian Military Academy Prussian Trust, German expellee company Prussia...
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Seebataillon (category Military units and formations of the Imperial German Navy)
marines. It was used by the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy, the Imperial German Navy, the Austro-Hungarian Navy, the Kriegsmarine, and briefly...
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early 1880s, the Prussian and later Imperial German Navies purchased or built sixteen ironclad warships. In 1860, however, the Prussian Navy consisted solely...
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Prussianism comprises the practices and doctrines of the Prussians, specifically the militarism and the severe discipline traditionally associated with...
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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North...
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24 cm K L/20 (section The Prussian 24 cm Ring Kanone)
the Prussian Navy then ordered its first massive steel 21 cm rifled breechloaders a.k.a. as 72-pdrs. These were made according to a design by the Navy Departement...
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(Between coastal defence and world policy. The political history of the prussian navy 1848 to 1867), Bochum 2008. Wiechmann, Gerhard: Die preußisch-deutsche...
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Brandenburg–Prussia (redirect from Brandenburg-Prussian)
and the Brandenburg-Prussian advance in Swedish Pomerania during the Scanian War, Frederick William decided to establish a navy. He engaged Dutch merchant...
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The Royal Prussian Army (1701–1919, German: Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia. It became vital to the development...
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Saar Basin into Germany), 29 August (the day of the founding of the Prussian Navy in 1859), the first Sunday after Michaelmas and the day of the harvest...
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of steam corvettes, the first ship of that type to be built for the Prussian Navy. She had one sister ship, Medusa, and the vessels were wooden-hulled...
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SMS Gazelle was an Arcona-class screw-driven frigate of the Prussian Navy built in the 1850s. In the immediate aftermath of the First Schleswig War against...
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21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in one...
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Hans von Koester (category Members of the Prussian House of Lords)
1928) was a German naval officer who served in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy. He retired as a Grand Admiral. Born Hans Ludwig...
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to reinforce the small Prussian Navy to help break the blockade. After arriving in the North Sea, Tegetthoff joined a Prussian aviso and a pair of gunboats...
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Ludwig von Henk (category Prussian people of the Austro-Prussian War)
naval officer, who distinguished himself in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire. He retired as a Vice-Admiral...
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the Royal Navy RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy SMS Amazone...
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SMS Danzig (1851) (category Ships of the Prussian Navy)
corvette of the Prussian Navy. She was the lead warship during the Battle of Tres Forcas in 1856, one of the first examples of Prussian gunboat diplomacy...
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SMS Arminius (category Ships of the Prussian Navy)
warship of the Prussian Navy, later the Imperial German Navy. The vessel was a turret ship that was designed by the British Royal Navy Captain Cowper...
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List of German flags (section German Navy)
Imperial Navy war ensign (Kriegsflagge) 1848–1852 War ensign of the Reichsflotte 1895–1918 Naval ensign of Prussian Navy 1819–1895 Naval ensign of Prussian Navy...
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Danish and Prussian navies on 17 March 1864 during the Second Schleswig War. The action took place east of the Jasmund peninsula on the Prussian island of...
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SMS Prinz Adalbert (1865) (category Ships of the Prussian Navy)
warship of the Prussian Navy and later the Imperial fleet. She was built in Bordeaux, France in 1864 for the Confederate States Navy. Prussia bought...
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