List of ships with the name Emden

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The silhouettes of the five combat ships

Emden is a name that is used several times by ships of the German navies .

The name Emden comes from the city of Emden on the German North Sea coast .

Ship list

designation Ship type Class / type Construction year Shipyard Owner period of service Whereabouts image
City of EmdenReceipt ? Flute before 1686 Netherlands - Applied to Brest in 1689
Emden Castle East Indiaman before 1751 Great Britain -
1761 		sold in Barcelona
EmdenReceipt ? Sailing frigate To the Prussian Adler, Emden -
City of EmdenReceipt ? Gunboat before 1813 Netherlands -
1815 		returned in Delfzijl
EmdenReceipt ? Aviso 1865 Henderson, Colbourne & Co., Glasgow Prussia 1865
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1890 		sold
Emden Small cruiser Dresden class 1908 Imperial Shipyard Gdansk Imperial Navy July 10, 1909
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November 9, 1914 		stranded in battle
Bundesarchiv DVM 10 Bild-23-61-13, Small cruiser "SMS Emden I" .jpg
Emden Small cruiser Koenigsberg class 1916 AG Weser Bremen Imperial Navy March 12, 1917
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May 21, 1919 		Scrapped in Caen in 1926
SMS Emden Scapa Flow 1919 IWM SP 001864.jpg
EmdenReceipt ? Outpost boat 1918 Emden
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Dec. 14, 1925 		missing at Iceland, total loss
Emden Light cruiser Single ship 1925 Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Reichsmarine , Kriegsmarine Oct. 15, 1925
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May 3, 1945 		set on the ground
Light Cruiser Emden off the US West Coast 1930.jpg
Emden AE 1Receipt ? Motor logger before 1940 -
Emden FZ 2Receipt ? Motor cutter before 1943 Emden - 1960 in the fishing service again
Emden frigate Cologne class 1959 HC Stülcken son of Hamburg German Navy Oct. 24, 1961
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June 30, 1983 		scrapped in Aliağa from January 1994
F221 frigate emden IV 1983.jpg
Emden frigate Bremen class 1980 North Sea Works Emden German Navy Oct 7, 1983
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Nov 29, 2013 		Naval base Heppenser Groden
FGS Emden (F210) .jpg
EmdenReceipt ? General cargo ship Neptune 301 1981 Neptun shipyard, Rostock
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2012 		scrapped in India
EmdenReceipt ? Car transporter 1987 Hashihama Tadotsu Shipyard Tadotsu Taiyo Nippon Kisen, Kobe - Scrapped in Aliaga Feb. 2017

literature

  • Gerhard Koop: Emden. One name - five ships . Bernard & Graefe Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3-7637-5406-9
  • Reemt Reints Poppinga, Jochen Brennecke : 13 times »Emden« - as a name for German warships . In: Schiff und Zeit , No. 20, 1984, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, pp. 1–8.

Web links

Commons : Ships named Emden  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Emden  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations