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| S.M.S. Gneisenau (1906) | |
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| Launched: | 1906 |
| Sunk: | 8 Dec, 1914 |
S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armoured cruiser of the Imperial German Navy.
Service
Battle of Coronel
Battle of the Falkland Islands
She was lost at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. A diary of notes taken during her pursuit and destruction was captured from one of her survivors and compared with logs of the action from the Invincible and Inflexible, synchronized by forcing time stamps to agree on when the Germans first opened fire (this time being called 0).[1] Some highlights therein:
[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Kapitän zur See Franz Ritter von Hipper, 6 March, 1908[2] – 30 September, 1908[3]
- Kapitän zur See Konrad Trummler, 1 October, 1908[4] – 14 September, 1910[5]
- Kapitän zur See Ludolf von Uslar, 1 October, 1908[6] – 3 June, 1912[7]
- Kapitän zur See Franz W. Brüninghaus, June, 1912[8] – June, 1914[9]
- Kapitän zur See Gustav-Julius Maerker, June, 1914[10] – 8 December, 1914[11] (ship lost under his command)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Five faded pages, the second nearly wholly illegible, within the Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
- ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
Bibliography
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