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    SMS Pillau was a light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy. The ship, originally ordered in 1913 by the Russian navy under the name Maraviev Amurskyy,...
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    The Pillau class of light cruisers was a pair of ships built in Germany just before the start of World War I. The class consisted of SMS Pillau and Elbing...
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    outbreak of World War I becoming SMS Regensburg, SMS Pillau and SMS Elbing. Two larger cruisers, SMS Wiesbaden and SMS Frankfurt were also commenced and...
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    (flagship): KptzS Thilo von Trotha SMS Elbing (scuttled 1 June): KFpt Rudolf Madlung SMS Pillau: KFpt Konrad Mommsen [de] SMS Wiesbaden (sunk 1 June): KFpt...
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    muzzle blast. One fifteen-inch shell hit a gun shield of the light cruiser SMS Pillau but did not affect her speed. At 9:30 the 1st Cruiser Squadron broke off...
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    as opportunity permitted. One 15-inch hit was made on a gun shield of SMS Pillau, but it did not affect her speed. At 8:33 the left-hand gun in Glorious's...
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    especially torpedo boats. In 1889 Schichau built a small repair shipyard in Pillau (now Baltijsk, Russia) near Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Schichau's...
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    cruisers as opportunity permitted. One 15-inch shell hit a gun shield of SMS Pillau, but it did not affect her speed. At 8:33 the left-hand gun in Glorious's...
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    SMS Derfflinger was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) built in the early 1910s during the Anglo-German naval arms race...
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    Cruisers: SMS Augsburg, SMS Bremen, SMS Graudenz, SMS Pillau, SMS Roon, SMS Prinz Heinrich Minelayer: SMS Albatross Flotilla of 56 destroyers Halpern, p...
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    SMS Lützow was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) before World War I. Ordered as a replacement...
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  • (1914) - Since 1914 SMS Pillau, ceded to Italy and renamed Bari, sunk 1943 Admiral Nevel‘skoi \ «Адмирал Невельской» (1914) - Since 1914 SMS Elbing, sunk at...
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    SMS Bremen ("His Majesty's Ship Bremen") was the lead ship of the seven-vessel Bremen class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine...
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    January 1892, was finally named SMS Satellit, was launched on September 21 and carried out its first sea test between Pillau and the Hel on 30 December 1892...
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    SMS Seydlitz was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), built in Hamburg. She was ordered in 1910 and commissioned in May 1913...
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    × 105 mm guns) SMS Niobe (1900–1925) SMS Nymphe (1900–1931) SMS Thetis (1901–1929) SMS Amazone (1901–1931) SMS Medusa (1901–1945) SMS Arcona (1903–1945)...
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    SMS Königsberg was the lead ship of the Königsberg class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) during World War I...
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    Germans were very late in adapting 5.9-inch guns (not doing so until the Pillau class of 1913); Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's recalcitrance over the...
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    confiscated in August 1914 and launched on 21 November 1914 as SMS Elbing. She had one sister ship, Pillau, the lead ship of their class. The ship was commissioned...
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    1st Submarine Training Division in Neustadt, assigned from July 1941 at Pillau. From the end of July 1944 she was used as a casualty transport ship in...
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    SMS Baden was a Bayern-class dreadnought battleship of the German Imperial Navy built during World War I. Launched in October 1915 and completed in March...
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    (ocean-going) Dresden-class cruiser Kolberg-class cruiser Königsberg-class cruiser Pillau-class cruiser Wiesbaden-class cruiser During World War I it was sometimes...
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    SMS G196 was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel between 1910 and 1911,...
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    SMS Wiesbaden was a light cruiser of the Wiesbaden class built for the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). She had one sister ship, SMS Frankfurt;...
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    SMS Moltke was the lead ship of the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy, named after the 19th-century German Field Marshal Helmuth...
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    turn superseded by the more powerful 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45 gun in the Pillau class. A waterline armored belt was introduced in the Magdeburg class, which...
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    where Invincible and Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau; despite numerous hits by the German ships, Inflexible...
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  • class Ersatz Yorck class Mackensen class Derfflinger class SMS Seydlitz Moltke class SMS Von der Tann Displacement: 5,652 tons Armament: 8 x 24 cm guns...
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  • SMS Stuttgart was a Königsberg-class light cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), named after the city of Stuttgart. She had three sister...
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