Launched in 1911, completed in 1912, displacement 4.480 tons, horsepower 24.200 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive and an armament of 7-5.9” guns, 5 smaller and machineguns and 2 torpedo tubes.(1)
Note
1. Former German cruiser SMS Strassburg of the Magdeburg-class, laid down under the temporarily name Ersatz Condor at the Imperial navy yard, Kiel, Germany in 1910, launched on 24 August 1911, commissioned on 9 October 1912, stricken on 10 march 1920, handed over to Italy at Cherbourg, France under the provisional name “O” in 1920, rebuilt to be used in the Italian colonies in 1936-1937, scuttles at La Spezia, Italy on 9 September 1943, salvaged by German forces, sunk by Allied bombers on 23 October 1943, again salvaged by German forces and for the second time sunk in the outer raods of La Spezia by Allied bombers on 23 September 1944 and finally broken up in 1946-1947.
Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at The Hague, Netherlands) inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.
