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Wednesday, 30 January 2019

German armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst visited the Dutch East Indies in 1910


An item reported that the German armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst visited Sang between 4-7 February, Padang between 10-16 February and Tandjong Priok, Dutch East Indies between 18-21 February 1910.(1)

Note
1. Laid down as 'D" at the shipyard of Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 175 on 3 January 1905, launched on 22 June 1906, commissioned on 24 October 1907 and sunk in a battle with the British fleet during the so-called Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914.Of the Schanhorst-class consisting of the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. Preceded by the Roon-class and succeeded by the SMS Blücher.

Source
Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1909-1910.