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Bremen

Kleiner Kreuzer 1904 - 1915  Bremen  Class

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Kleiner Kreuzer München of the Bremen Class


With the small cruisers of the Bremen class, the German navy started a tradition that would be typical for all following small cruisers and light cruisers of World War II: They were named after German towns. The class consisted of seven ships that did not differ very much from their predecessors, the Gazelle class. One of the ships - the Lübeck -  was different in one important detail, for the first time, a turbine engine was installed on a small cruiser instead of the triple expansion engine that was typical for most ships of this time. While being very maneuverable ships, they took over quite a lot of water and started to roll heavily in stormy sears.

Despite not being modern ships at the outbreak of World War I, those ships were used intensively, several were lost and some of them even survived World War II - but not as combat ships anymore.

The Bremen was used in overseas services between 1904 and 1914. Used for fleet operations in the Baltic Sea after that, the ship was lost when hit by a mine near Windau on 17.12.1915 while trying to help the torpedo boat V191 which was damaged by a mine hit, too.


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