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Friday, 14 May 2021

German light cruiser HMS Kolberg performed well during trial according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1910-1911 no. 9


An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that the German cruiser HMS Kolberg built by the shipyard at Schichau and fitted out with turbines of this shipyard achieved a maximum speed of 27 miles during her trials.(1)

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1. As Ersatz Greif building contract awarded to Schichau-Werke, Danizg on 24 August 1907, Laid down 15 January 1908, launched on 14 November 1908, completed on 21 June 1910, stricken from the Navy Lost on 5 November 1919, handed over as the “W’ at Cherbourg, France on 28 April 1920, commissioned in 1922 in the French name as the Colmar, stricken on 21 July 1927 and broken up at Brest, France in 1929. Of the Kolberg-class light cruisers preceded by the Dresden-class and succeeded by the Magdeburg-class. 

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