S.M.S. Emden
Displacement 3650 tons. Length 387 feet. Breadth 44.5 feet Draught 15.75 feet.
Armament Ten 4.1 inch Q.F. Guns; two Machine Guns: two submerged Torpedo Tubes.
Engines, Reciprocating, 2 shafts. Fuel Capacity 777 tons (coal). Speed 24.5 knots.
The S.M.S Emden was a German Light Cruiser built in Danzig in 1907 and 1908 and named after the City of Emden,
a port on the Ems River. She became part of the Imperial German Navy in 1910.
In a period of just under three months between the 2nd of August and 30th October she had sunk or captured 28 merchant ships,
torpedoed and sunk a Russian Cruiser, sunk a French Destroyer with gunfire
and shelled oil tanks at Madras. |
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