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The armored cruisers in turn led to the first German battlecruiser, SMS Von der Tann. The protected and unprotected cruisers had been withdrawn from active service by the 1910s, though some continued in secondary roles. Most of the armored and light cruisers saw action in World War I, in all of the major
The ship was present for most of the German fleet operations during World War I, including several raids of the English coast between 1914 and 1916. [3] At the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, Von der Tann was the last ship in the German battlecruiser squadron.
Germany was permitted to retain eight of the oldest cruisers; of these, five continued to serve in secondary roles into World War II. The Treaty of Versailles allowed Germany to replace these old cruisers, and the first such new vessel, Emden , was built in the early 1920s to a design based on the last wartime classes.
The five ships of the Admiral Hipper class were authorized under the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, signed in 1935, which permitted Germany 50,000 long tons (51,000 t) of heavy cruisers. Of these ships, only three were completed; the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 caused work to be halted on the last two ships.
The ships were the first German cruisers to equal their British counterparts. [21] Built for overseas service, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were assigned to the East Asia Squadron in 1909 and 1910, respectively. [22] Both ships had brief careers; shortly before the outbreak of World War I, the ships departed the German colony at Qingdao. [23]
The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945. See the list of naval ships of Germany for ships in German service throughout the country's history.
List Click on headers to sort columns. List of cruisers of World War I Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Achilles Royal Navy Warrior armored cruiser 13,550 22 April 1907 sold for scrap 9 May 1921 Adamastor Portuguese Navy unprotected cruiser 1,729 3 August 1897 decommissioned 16 October 1933, scrapped April 1934 Admiral Makarov Imperial Russian Navy Bayan ...
This duty was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. [6] One day before the German invasion of Poland, on 31 August, Königsberg spotted the Polish destroyers Burza and Błyskawica in the Baltic. [7] At the start of hostilities, she and several other German cruisers laid a defensive minefield in the North Sea.