Key facts
- Name
- Emden
- Namesake
- City of Emden
- Builder
- Kaiserliche Werft , Danzig
- Laid down
- 1 November 1906
- Launched
- 26 May 1908
- Commissioned
- 10 July 1909
- Fate
- Disabled by HMAS Sydney and grounded off the Cocos Islands , 9 November 1914
- Class type
- Dresden -class cruiser
- Displacement
- Normal : 3,664 t (3,606 long tons ) Full load : 4,268 t (4,201 long tons)
- Length
- 118.3 m (388 ft 1 in)
- Beam
- 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)
- Draft
- 5.53 m (18 ft 2 in)
- Installed power
- 13,315 ihp (9,929 kW) 12 water-tube boilers
- Propulsion
- 2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 × screw propellers
- Speed
- 23.5 kn (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph)
- Range
- 3,760 nmi (6,960 km; 4,330 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
- Complement
- 18 officers 343 enlisted men
- Armament
- 10 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK L/40 guns 8 × 5.2 cm (2 in) SK L/55 SK L/55 guns 2 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- light cruiser
- Named after
- Emden
- Operator
- Imperial German Navy
- Mass
- 4268
- Manufacturer
- Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
- Conflict
- Battle of Cocos
- Image
- Bundesarchiv DVM 10 Bild-23-61-13, Kleiner Kreuzer "SMS Emden I".jpg
- Width
- 13.4
- Length
- 118.3
- Speed
- 23.5
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- SMS Emden (ship, 1908)
- location of creation
- Gdańsk
- vessel class
- Dresden-class cruiser
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- SMS Emden
- beam
- 13.5
- draft
- 5.53
- vehicle range
- 3760
- country of registry
- German Reich
- different from
- SMS Emden
- name
- SMS Emden
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Encyclopedic overview
SMS Emden ("His Majesty's Ship Emden") was the second and final member of the Dresden class of light cruisers built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Named for the town of Emden, she was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft (Imperial Dockyard) in Danzig in 1906. The hull was launched in May 1908, and completed in July 1909. She had one sister ship, Dresden. Like the preceding Königsberg-class cruisers, Emden was armed with ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and two torpedo tubes.
Emden spent the majority of her career overseas in the East Asia Squadron, based in Qingdao, in the Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory in China. In 1913, Karl von Müller took command of the ship. At the outbreak of World War I, Emden captured a Russian steamer and converted her into the commerce raider Cormoran. Emden rejoined the East Asia Squadron, then was detached for independent raiding in the Indian Ocean. The cruiser spent nearly two months operating in the region, and captured nearly two dozen ships. On 28 October 1914, Emden launched a surprise attack on Penang; in the resulting Battle of Penang, she sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SMS Emden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.