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Deck: 40 mm (1.6 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) Emden was a light cruiser built for the German Navy ( Reichsmarine) in the early 1920s. She was the only ship of her class and was the first large warship built in Germany after the end of World War I.
SMS Emden ("His Majesty's Ship Emden ") was the second and final member of the Dresden class of light cruisers built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Named for the town of Emden , she was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft (Imperial Dockyard) in Danzig in 1906.
Dec 4, 2017 · In the first months of World War I, a German raider, the light cruiser Emden brought the bulk of Allied cargo shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean to a virtual halt. The Emden was finally destroyed, but some of her crew escaped in a sailing schooner, the Ayesha and returned home.
The Imperial German Navy’s SMS Emden was a light cruiser that was completed in 1909, then sent to join the German East Asia Squadron, based in Tsingtao, China. Displacing about 4300 tons, she was armed with ten 4.1 inch guns and two torpedo tubes, which was a nice punch for a ship of her size.
Jul 30, 2018 · The Emden entered the harbor disguised as a British cruiser, complete with a fake smokestack – a recurring tactic von Muller enforced throughout encounters and evasions – and sank Zhemchug with her torpedoes and broadside guns.
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Feb 22, 2020 · How German cruiser ‘Emden’ struck terror in the heart of the British Empire, and became a Tamil word. This ‘swan of the east’ had one mission only — to sneak into the Indian Ocean and play...
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Emden was a light cruiser built for the German Navy in the early 1920s. She was the only ship of her class and was the first large warship built in Germany after the end of World War I. She was built at the Reichsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven; her keel was laid down in December 1921 and her completed hull was launched in January 1925.
