The SMS Dresden was a Cöln class small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . The ship was launched as a replacement for the 1907 Dresden sunk in the Pacific on April 25, 1917 at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel and was named after its predecessor. It was put into service on March 28, 1918 as the last ship in the deep-sea fleet.
The ship had a length of 155.5 m, a width of 14.2 m, a draft of 6.43 m, and a water displacement of 7,486 t. The armament consisted of eight guns of caliber 15 cm, three anti-aircraft guns 8.8 cm and four torpedo tubes with 60 cm diameter. The cruiser had a top speed of 27.8 knots .
history
First World War
Since the Dresden needed a long trial period, it did not join the II reconnaissance group until August 1918. In the same month she was hit by a mine. The ship was repaired. When the sailors' uprisings began in Germany, the Dresden was in Eckernförde . There she was decommissioned on November 7, 1918.
Whereabouts
After the end of the war, the Dresden was interned with the rest of the high seas in November 1918 in Scapa Flow . Their anchorage was east of the island of Cava . When it became clear that Germany would not get the ships back, the German commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter , ordered the fleet to sink itself on June 21, 1919 . The small cruiser Dresden was sunk by its remaining crew. It was one of seven ships that was not lifted and is still 34 meters below the bottom of Scapa Flow.
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