SMS Magdeburg ("His Majesty's Ship Magdeburg")[a] was a lead ship of the Magdeburg class of light cruisers in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Her class included three other ships: Breslau, Strassburg, and Stralsund. Magdeburg was built at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen from 1910 to August 1912, when she was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet. The ship was armed with a main battery of twelve 10.5 cm SK L/45 guns and had a top speed of 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph). Magdeburg was used as a torpedo test ship after her commissioning until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, when she was brought to active service and deployed to the Baltic.
In the Baltic, Magdeburg fired the first shots of the war against the Russians on 2 August, when she shelled the port of Libau. She participated in a series of bombardments of Russian positions until late August. On the 26th, she participated in a sweep of the entrance to the Gulf of Finland; while steaming off the Estonian coast, she ran aground off the island of Odensholm and could not be freed. A pair of Russian cruisers appeared and seized the ship. Fifteen crew members were killed in the brief engagement. They recovered three intact German code books, one of which they passed to the British. The ability to decrypt German wireless signals provided the British with the ability to ambush German units on several occasions during the war, including the Battle of Jutland. The Russians partially scrapped Magdeburg while she remained grounded before completely destroying the wreck.
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SMSMagdeburg ("His Majesty's Ship Magdeburg") was a lead ship of the Magdeburg class of light cruisers in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
Germany were named Magdeburg after the city of Magdeburg, Germany: SMSMagdeburg, a Magdeburg-class light cruiser, launched 1911 SMSMagdeburg (1917) a Cöln-class...
Admiralty. The Russians had seized this material from the German cruiser SMSMagdeburg after it ran aground off the Estonian coast on 26 August 1914. The Russians...
decode naval traffic, which had been retrieved from the wrecked cruiser SMSMagdeburg by the Russians, who passed it to the British. Disclosure of the telegram...
obtained a copy of the main German codebook from the light cruiser SMSMagdeburg, which had been boarded by the Russian Navy after the ship ran aground...
Battle of Dogger Bank, the SMS Pommern incident when Wilhelm Tranow succeeded in breaking their own cipher, the SMSMagdeburg incident and the latter years...
in Poland. A naval action took place off Åland and a German cruiser SMSMagdeburg ran aground and was intercepted by a Russian squadron. On 3 September...
1914 when as part of a reconnaissance squadron, the light cruiser SMSMagdeburg ran aground in heavy fog in the Gulf of Finland. The other German ships...
1914, together with Pallada, she captured the German light cruiser SMSMagdeburg off of Osmussaar on the north coast of Estonia. The German crew scuttled...
Kriegsmarine Years of service 1907–45 Rank Generaladmiral Unit SMS Leipzig SMS Augsburg SMSMagdeburg Commands held cruiser Köln Battles/wars World War I World...
immediately involved in warfare. On August 2 German warships SMS Augsburg and SMSMagdeburg shelled port city Liepāja, causing it light damage. On August...
Río de Oro. A pair of Russian battle cruisers shelled German cruiser SMSMagdeburg after she ran aground on an island in the Gulf of Finland, killing 15...
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of luck, the SKM codebook was obtained from the German Light cruiser Magdeburg, which ran aground on the island of Odensholm off the coast of Russian-controlled...
completed in 1954. In 1914, during World War I, the German light cruiser Magdeburg ran aground and sank near the northern tip of Osmussaar. All inhabitants...
SMS V187 was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the AG Vulcan shipyard at Stettin between 1910 and 1911 and...
tasked with bringing the codebooks salvaged from the German cruiser SMSMagdeburg to Britain and was attached to the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet until 1915...
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