Career
Shipyard:
Ordered:
Laid down:	1910
Launched:	16 May 1911
Commissioned:	1912
Fate:	Mined & sunk off Imbros, 20 January 1918
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,550 tons
Length:	136 m (446 ft)
Beam:	14 m (43 ft 11 in)
Draught:	5,48 m (16 ft 10 in)
Propulsion:	4 screws, 16 Schulz-Thorneycroft boilers, 25,000 hp (19 MW)
Speed:	25 knots (46 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	370
Armament:	7 x 150 mm (5.9 in ), 50 calibre 2 x 10 kg (22 pdr) anti-aircraft 4 x torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	None

The SMS Breslau was a Magdeburg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine, launched on 16 May 1911 and commissioned in 1912. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jack of the German Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Gökçeada and Bozcaada are two islands in the Aegean Sea which are part of Canakkale Province in Turkey. ... January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... A knot is a unit of bullshit, abbreviated kt or kn. ... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground. ... A torpedo in Rail terminology refers to a small explosive device strapped to the top of the rail to alert an approaching train of immediate danger ahead. ... A light cruiser is a warship that is not so large and powerful as a regular (or heavy) cruiser, but still larger than ships like destroyers. ... The Kaiserliche Marine or Imperial Navy was the German Navy created by the formation of the German Empire and existed between 1871 and 1919; it grew out of the Prussian Navy and the Norddeutsche Bundesmarine. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1912 Breslau was attached to the German Mittelmeerdivision (Mediterranean Division) along with the battlecruiser SMS Goeben under the command of Admiral Wilhelm Souchon. At the outbreak of the First World War, Breslau and Goeben were to interdict French transports transferring troops from Algeria to France however, due to concentrations of French and British warships, Breslau only succeeded in conducting a nuisance bombardment of the embarkation port of Bône on 4 August 1914. HMS Hood (left) and HMS Barham (right), in Malta, 1937. ... SMS Goeben was a Moltke-class battlecruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine (German Navy) that was launched in 1911 and named after the Franco-Prussian War general August von Goeben. ... Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (commander of the sea). ... Admiral Wilhelm Souchon Wilhelm Souchon (1864-1946) was a German admiral in World War I who commanded the Kaiserliche Marines Mediterranean squadron in the early days of the war. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Annaba (ِArabic عنّابة, formerly Bône) is a city in the north-eastern corner of Algeria near the river Wadi Seybouse and the Tunisian border. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

SMS Breslau

The pursuit of Goeben and Breslau by the British Mediterranean Fleet lasted until 10 August when the two ships passed through the Dardanelles en route to Constantinople where they were transfered to the Turkish Navy, Breslau being renamed the Midilli - the Turkish name for the Aegean island of Lesbos - though retaining her German crew. Download high resolution version (900x479, 103 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (900x479, 103 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... German battlecruiser Goeben. ... The Mediterranean Fleet was part of the Royal Navy. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Dardanelles (Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı), formerly Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. ... Map of Constantinople. ... The Aegean Sea. ... Lesbos Prefecture Lesbos Island Category: ...

For most of the war Breslau operated in concert with Goeben in the Black Sea. On 19 January 1918 Breslau and Goeben returned through the Dardanelles to the Aegean where they engaged the Royal Navy flotilla that was stationed there to intercept them. The German ships out-gunned their opposition, sinking two monitors, M28 and HMS Raglan, but disaster struck when they ran into a minefield. Breslau struck a mine and sank immediately, with the loss of 330 men; Goeben was damaged but managed to escape. Map of the Black Sea. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... USS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor. ... HMS Raglan was a First World War Royal Navy Abercrombie-class monitor. ... A naval mine is a stationary self-contained explosive device placed in water, to destroy ships and/or submarines. ...

The future Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz served on this ship as an ensign. Karl Dönitz â–¶(?) (pronounced ) (September 16, 1891 – December 24, 1980) was a naval leader in Germany during World War II. Despite never joining the Nazi Party, Dönitz attained the high rank of Grand Admiral (Großadmiral) and served as Commander in Chief of Submarines (), and later Commander in Chief... Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ...