S.M.S. Gneisenau (1906)
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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:
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Captains
- Kapitän zur See Franz Hipper, 6 March, 1908.[2]
- Kapitän zur See Konrad Trummler, 1 October, 1908.[3]
- Kapitän zur See Wilhelm Brüninghaus, 15 September, 1910.[4]
- Kapitän zur See Gustav-Julius Maerker, June, 1914.[5]
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.]]
Bibliography
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