SMS Gneisenau

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SMS Gneisenau was the name of two warships named after the Prussian Field Marshal August Neidhardt von Gneisenau :

  • SMS Gneisenau (1879) , a three-mast cruiser frigate as a cadet training ship for the Imperial Navy
  • SMS Gneisenau (1906) , a large cruiser (armored cruiser) of the 1st Scharnhorst class of the Imperial Navy