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    SMS Magdeburg ("His Majesty's Ship Magdeburg") was a lead ship of the Magdeburg class of light cruisers in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Admiral Sampson, 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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    Admiral Sampson, 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, 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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 Cöln ("His Majesty's Ship Cologne") was a Kolberg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) during the First World War...
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  • Admiral Sampson, 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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    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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    Río de Oro. 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, 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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    Kriegsmarine Years of service 1907–45 Rank Generaladmiral Unit SMS Leipzig SMS Augsburg SMS Magdeburg Commands cruiser Köln Battles/wars World War I World War...
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    completed in 1954. In 1914, during World War I, the German light cruiser Magdeburg ran aground and sank near the northern tip of Osmussaar. All inhabitants...
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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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