German cruiser SMS Gazelle and Danish steamship Ellida collided according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 11 February 1899

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An item dated Kiel, Germany 9^th reported that the same morning at 08.00 o’clock the German cruiser SMS Gazelle and the Danish steamship Ellida collided off Stollergrund. The Ellida sunk but her crew was saved.(1)

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1. Of the Gazelle-class light cruisers consisting of the Gazelle, Niobe, Nymphe, Thetis,  Araidne, Amazone, Medusa, Frauenlob, Ancona and Undine. Preceded by the Hella and succeeded by the Bremen-class. Builder ordered under the contract name ‘G‘, laid down at the Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany in 1897, launched on 31 March 1898, commissioned on 15 June 1901, heavily damaged by Russian mines north of Cape Arkoma in the night of 25-26 January 1916, not worth to be repaired and hulked in 1916, served since then as a hulk for minelayers at Danzig, Cuxhaven and since 1918 at Wilhelmshaven, stricken on 28 August 1920 and the same year broken up at Wilhelmshaven