SMS Blücher
British Invincible-class
An item reported that the German armoured cruiser SMS Blücher grounded in foggy weather near Romsö in the Great Belt, After unloading ammunition and so on refloated she at high tide. Afterwards docked in the floating dock at the shipyard at Kiel to be securely examined.
Note
1. Designed as an answer to the British battle cruisers of the Invincible-class but in fact no match for the successors of the armoured cruisers. It became just after the building was ordered clear that these British battle cruisers were armed with 8-30,5 cm guns and not as earlier was believed 6/8-23cm guns. Ordered as the ‘E’ after the authorisation by the Reichstag on 26 May 1906 of the needed budget, was she laid down on 21 February 1907 at the Kaiserliche Werft at Kiel, Germany, launched on 11 April 1908 and commissioned on 1 October a year later was she sunk during the battle of Dogger Bank against British naval forces on 24 January 1915.
