SMS Emden

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Two German ships has been named SMS Emden after the town of Emden on the Ems River:

  • SMS Emden (1906), a Dresden-class light cruiser, commissioned in 1909, sank or captured nearly thirty Allied merchant vessels during World War I, and scuttled after the Battle of Cocos in 1914.
  • SMS Emden (1914), a Königsberg-class cruiser that was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919.


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