German Empire's Cruisers in World War I

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  • The German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe at the start of World War I.
  • The British Royal Navy hunted down the German cruisers to protect Allied shipping, but faced some embarrassment.
  • The German East-Asia squadron had some success in attacking merchant ships, but was largely destroyed in battles against the British warships.
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At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant shipping. The British Royal Navy systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. For example, the German detached light cruiser SMS Emden, part of the East-Asia squadron stationed at Qingdao, seized or destroyed 15 merchantmen, as well as sinking a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer. However, most of the German East-Asia squadron—consisting of the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau , light cruisers Nürnberg and Leipzig and two transport ships—did not have orders to raid shipping and was instead underway to Germany when it met British warships. The German flotilla and Dresden sank two armoured cruisers at the Battle of Coronel, but was virtually destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914, with only Dresden and a few auxiliaries escaping, but after the Battle of Más a Tierra these too had been destroyed or interned.

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a4330 お礼率 23% (3/13) 戦争の開始時に、ドイツ帝国は、その後連合国の商船を攻撃するために使用されたそのうちのいくつかは世界中に散らばっ巡洋艦を、持っていました。英国海軍は体系的ではないが連合軍の出荷を保護することができないことから、いくつか困惑することなく、それらを追い詰め。たとえば、ドイツ語一戸建て軽巡洋艦エムデン、青島に駐留東アジア艦隊の一部は、押収または15商船を破壊しただけでなく、ロシアの巡洋艦とフランスの駆逐艦を沈没します。しかし、ドイツの東アジア戦隊-からなる装甲巡洋艦シャルンホルストとグナイゼナウのほとんどの軽巡洋艦ニュルンベルク、ライプチヒと2の輸送船は-た出荷を襲撃するために注文を持っており、それはイギリスの軍艦に会ったときにドイツに代わりに進めませんでした。ドイツの小艦隊とドレスデンはコロネル沖海戦で2装甲巡洋艦を沈めたが、事実上、1914年12月におけるフォークランド諸島の戦いで破壊された、唯一のドレスデンとエスケープいくつかの助剤とが、MASの戦いティエラ後にこれらすぎていました破壊または抑留されて。

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