German light cruiser SMS Dresden in Mexiacan waters according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 17 April 1914

passing the Levensauer Hockbrucke above the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal since 1948 Nord-Ostsee Kanal 1908-summer 1909

An item dated Berlin, Germany 16th reported that the German cruiser Dresden steaming in Mexican waters was ordered to go towards Tampico.(1)

Note

1. Was there to protect German interests during the Mexican Revolution. Of the Dresden-class light cruisers, preceded by Königsberg-class, succeeded by Kolberg-class, laid down by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 195 in1906, launched on 14 November 1908, commissioned on 14 November 1908, participated in the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands against the British Royal Navy as part of the German East Asia Squadron and scuttled off Robinson Crusoe Island on 14 March 1915. 

German light cruiser SMS Dresden stranded according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 26 December 1914

\Sister ship SMS Emden

An 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].

Note
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. 

German light cruiser SMS Dresden 1906-1915

Sister ship SMS Emden

Part of the Dresden-class light cruisers consisting of the Dresden and Emden, both built under the 1905-1906 program, 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 Battke 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. 

Displacement 4.268 tons and as dimensions 118,3 (over all) x 13,5 x 5,53 metres or 388.1 x 44.3 x 18.2 feet. The machinery consisted of 2 Parson steam turbines and 12 coal fired water tube boilers supplying 14.794 ihp allowing a speed of 24 knots and with a speed of 12 knots and a coal bunker capacity of 860 tons coal was her range of 3,600 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 371 men (included 18 officers). The armour consisted of a 8cm/3.1” thick deck, 5cm/2.0” thick guns shields and with the conning tower protected by 10cm/3.9” thick armour. The armament consisted of 10x1-10,5cm/4”.1” L/40 quick firing guns, 8x1-5,2cm/2.0” L/55 quick firing guns and 2-45cm/17.7” torpedo tubes.