S.M.S. Gneisenau (1906)

S.M.S. Gneisenau (1906)
Launched:	1906
Sunk:	8 Dec, 1914

S.M.S. Gneisenau was an armoured cruiser of the Imperial German Navy.

Service

Battle of the Falkland Islands

She was lost at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. A diary of notes taken during her pursuit and destruction was captured from one of her survivors and compared with logs of the action from the Invincible and Inflexible, synchronized by forcing time stamps to agree on when the Germans first opened fire (this time being called 0). Some highlights therein:

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Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Kapitän zur See Franz Ritter von Hipper, 6 March, 1908 – 30 September, 1908
• Kapitän zur See Konrad Trummler, 1 October, 1908 – 14 September, 1910
• Kapitän zur See Ludolf von Uslar, 1 October, 1908 – 3 June, 1912
• Kapitän zur See Franz W. Brüninghaus, June, 1912 – June, 1914
• Kapitän zur See Gustav-Julius Maerker, June, 1914 – 8 December, 1914  (ship lost under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia
• 3D Model available for licensing