The second SMS Rostock was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy . It was the sixth planned ship of the Cöln class and was originally to be built as a replacement for the cruiser Mainz , which was sunk on August 28, 1914 . The ship was then named after the small cruiser Rostock , which sank in the Skagerrak Battle .
Due to a lack of material and staff, construction was slow. It was stopped seven months before completion. On November 17, 1919, the Rostock was removed from the list of warships and sold for demolition in 1921.
literature
Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p.143 .
Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Small cruisers 1903-1918. Bremen to Cologne class. Volume 12: Ship classes and ship types in the German Navy. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .