\Sister ship SMS EmdenAn item dated Paris, France 25th reported that the German cruiser Dresden (1) which escaped at the Falkland Islands was stranded after coal bunkering off Punta Arenas, Chile [Sandy Point].
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1. Of the Emden-class consisting of the Dresden and Emden, preceded by the Königsberg-class and succeeded by the Kolberg-class. , Laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 195 in 1906, launched on 5 October 1907, commissioned on 14 November 1908, present at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914 when the German East Asia Squadron destroyed a British squadron and at the Battle of the Falkland Islands when the contrary happened on 8 December 1914, she escaped until arrived Robinson Crusoe Island in March 1915, with a worn out machinery and desperately lacking coal spoke her commanding officer with the Chilean government to consider internment, before a decision was taken was she attacked by British warships as what became known the Battle of Mas a Tierra on 14 March 1915, scuttled by her own crew of which the most escaped and since then in Chilean internment with the wreck still lying in the sea bottom on a depth of 70 metres.
