Roon-class
An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands referred to an official telegram received from Berlin, Germany reporting that the German cruiser Yorck hit a chain of mines which blockade the entrance to the Jade bay causing her sinking. At that moment were over the half of her crew more as 382 men rescued.(1)
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1. Armoured cruiser. Laid down with the provisional name Ersatz Deutschland as at the Blohm&Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 167 in 1902, launched on 14 May 1904, completed on 21 November 1905, lost when she hit a German minefield after an attack on Yarmouth, England on 3-4 November 1914 and since then broken up in 1929-1930, 1965 and which was completed not earlier as in 1982. Of the Roon-class consisting of the Roon and Yorck, preceded by the Prinz Adalbert-class and succeeded by the Scharnhorst-class. Building costs 16.241.000 German Goldmarks.
