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Wednesday 29 June 2016

German minelayer cruiser SMS Albatross interned in Sweden after stranding according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 5 July 1915

An item reported that after a fight with Russian cruisers the German minelayer Albatros stranded of Astorgearn. Of her crew were 21 men killed and 27 wounded who were interned in Sweden.(1)

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1. Minelayer cruiser of the Nautilus-class laid down at AG Weser, Bremen, Germany on 24 May 1907, launched on 23 October 1907, commissioned on 19 May 1908, deliberately stranded on the island of Gotland, Sweden, heavily damaged after a fight with Russian cruisers after lying a minefield of the Aland Islands on  2 July 1915, salvaged and interned the same month by the Swedish, returned to Germany in January 1919, stricken on 21 March 1921 and broken the same year.