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Sunday 25 June 2023

German light cruiser SMS Hamburg 1902-1956

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Part of Bremen-class light cruisers preceded by Gazelle-class succeeded by Könisgberg-class. Lai down under the contract name ‘K’ by AG Vulcan shipyard, Stettin, Germany in August 1902, launched on 25 July 1903, fitted out at Kiel, commissioned on 8 March 1904, training ship after 1923, stricken on 31 March 1931, became a barracks ship, was to be broken up at Bremen, Germany in 1944, sunk in a British air attack on 27 July 1944, salvaged in 1949 and broken up in 1956.

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