SMS Berlin ("His Majesty's Ship Berlin")[a] was the second member of the seven-vessel Bremen class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1900s. She and her sister ships were ordered under the 1898 Naval Law that required new cruisers be built to replace obsolete vessels in the fleet. The design for the Bremen class was derived from the preceding Gazelle class, utilizing a larger hull that allowed for additional boilers that increased speed. Named for the German capital of Berlin, the ship was armed with a main battery of ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and had a top speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph).
Berlin served with the main fleet's scouting forces for the majority of her early career; during this period, she conducted unit and fleet training exercises, visits to foreign countries, and in 1908 and 1909, several long-distance training cruises into the central Atlantic. In 1911, the ship was involved in the Agadir Crisis over the French annexation of part of Morocco, which resulted in a diplomatic defeat for Germany. Berlin was reduced to reserve status in late 1912, remaining out of service until the start of World War I in July 1914. She was used to support German coastal defense forces and to scout for the High Seas Fleet; on two different occasions, she had to tow her sister ship Danzig back to port after the latter struck naval mines, and she had to tow her sister München after that vessel was torpedoed by a submarine. Berlin was reduced to a tender in early 1917 and saw no further active service for the rest of the war.
Among the handful of vessels permitted to Weimar Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin was initially used as a stationary training vessel before being modernized between 1921 and 1922. She thereafter served as a training ship for naval cadets, and over the course of the mid-1920s, embarked a series of long-distance training cruises. The furthest of these, lasting from late 1927 to early 1929, saw the ship voyage as far as East Asia. She was decommissioned in March 1929 and kept in reserve until 1935, when she was converted into a barracks ship, a role she filled through World War II. After the war, she was loaded with chemical weapons and scuttled in the Skagerrak in 1947.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
SMSBerlin ("His Majesty's Ship Berlin") was the second member of the seven-vessel Bremen class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine...
guard-ship at The Sound, and tenders SMS Pfeil and SMS T49. Did not sail: SMSBerlin: FKpt Hildebrand, at Wilhelmshaven; and SMS Brummer: KptzS Wilhelm Schulz...
SMS Panther to Agadir, a Moroccan Atlantic port. Germany did not object to France's expansion but wanted territorial compensation for itself. Berlin threatened...
SMS Emden, though this is not the official view. In any case, it is widely believed that Pillai and some Indian revolutionaries had a hand in the SMS...
outbreak of World War I becoming SMS Regensburg, SMS Pillau and SMS Elbing. Two larger cruisers, SMS Wiesbaden and SMS Frankfurt were also commenced and...
cruiser SMSBerlin and promoted on 19 September 1912 to Leutnant zur See. From 23 December 1912 Lohs acted as a signal officer on the light cruiser SMS Strassburg...
retargeting ads, SMS marketing, and more. The company has eight offices globally, which are located in Paris, Delhi, Seattle, Berlin, Sofia, Toronto,...
cadets of Crew 1913 were sent to the training ships SMS Hansa, SMS Hertha, SMS Victoria Louise and SMS Vineta. Lindemann was assigned to Hertha with 71 of...
September 1905 to 30 September 1907, he was commander of the cruiser SMSBerlin. In this position, he was promoted to Fregattenkapitän on April 27, 1907...
submarines Type XVII submarines Type XXIII submarines SMS G37 SMS G38 SMS G39 SMS G40 SMS G41 SMS G42 SMS G85 Nusret, now museum ship in Mersin, Turkey Hammond...
The plan called for many tax hikes and a reduction in civil servants. SMSBerlin became the first German Navy warship since the 1918 end of World War One...
Admiralty in Berlin. From 1906 he was assigned to the High Seas Fleet as a navigation officer, serving aboard SMS Wittelsbach, SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Braunschweig...
his division's flagship SMS Kaiser and the light cruiser SMS Prinzess Wilhelm available at anchor in Shanghai. The corvette SMS Arcona was laid up for...
SMS G134 was a S90-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. G134 was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel as part of the 1905 construction...
SMS Scharnhorst was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. She was the lead ship of her...
SMS G133 was a S90-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. G133 was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel in 1905–1906, being launched on...