SMS Dresden

SMS Dresden was a German light cruiser, the second and final member of the Königsberg class, built for the Imperial German Navy. She was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1906, launched in October 1907, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in November 1908. Her sister ships included SMS Königsberg, SMS Nürnberg, and SMS Stuttgart. Dresden was slightly larger than her sister ship Königsberg, and was armed with ten 10.5 cm SK L/40 guns and two torpedo tubes.

Dresden served with the High Seas Fleet throughout the first two years of World War I, participating in several operations against the British Royal Navy. She was present during the Battle of Jutland in 1916, but did not engage any enemy vessels. In 1917, she was assigned to the Baltic Sea, where she served as a training ship until the end of the war.

After the war, Dresden was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands under the terms of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. On 21 June 1919, the German crew scuttled the ship to prevent her from being seized by the British. The wreck was eventually raised and broken up for scrap in the 1930s.

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