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'''S.M.S. Gneisenau''' was an [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruiser]] of the [[Imperial German Navy]].
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'''S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''''' was an [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruiser]] of the [[Imperial German Navy]].
  
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==In Command==
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==Service==
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===Battle of Coronel===
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===Battle of the Falkland Islands===
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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 {{UK-Invincible}} and {{UK-Inflexible}}, synchronized by forcing time stamps to agree on when the Germans first opened fire (this time being called 0).<ref>Five faded pages, the second nearly wholly illegible, within the Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]</ref>  Some highlights therein:
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==Captains==
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank=Kapitän zur See|name=Franz Ritter von Hipper|nick=Franz Ritter von Hipper|appt=6 March, 1908<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|end=30 September, 1908<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Kapitän zur See|name=Konrad Trummler|nick=Konrad Trummler|appt=1 October, 1908<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|end=14 September, 1910<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Kapitän zur See|name=Ludolf von Uslar|nick=Ludolf von Uslar|appt=1 October, 1908<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|end=3 June, 1912<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Kapitän zur See|name=Franz Willi Brüninghaus|nick=Franz W. Brüninghaus|appt=June, 1912<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|end=June, 1914<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Kapitän zur See|name=Gustav-Julius Maerker|nick=Gustav-Julius Maerker|appt=June, 1914<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|end=8 December, 1914<ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau_%281906%29 German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. ''Gneisenau''.]</ref>|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship lost under his command}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Gneisenau Wikipedia]
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*[http://dreadnoughtproject.org/models/ships/SMS_Gneisenau/ 3D Model] available for licensing
 
*[http://dreadnoughtproject.org/models/ships/SMS_Gneisenau/ 3D Model] available for licensing
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==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==
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Latest revision as of 12:35, 2 March 2021

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 Coronel

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).[1] Some highlights therein:

[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Five faded pages, the second nearly wholly illegible, within the Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  2. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  3. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  4. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  5. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  6. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  7. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  8. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  9. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  10. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.
  11. ↑ German Wikipedia entry for S.M.S. Gneisenau.

Bibliography


Scharnhorst Class Armoured Cruiser
  Scharnhorst Gneisenau  
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