These seven cruisers were improved versions of the Gazelle class, optimized for greater speed. To accommodate more boilers, a third stack was added. Entering service from 1904 to 1907, these ships started the tradition of naming cruisers after cities in the German Navy and were, as their predecessors, used for various duties. One of them, SMS Lübeck, served as test bed for the new turbine engines. Although not being very modern, they were used intensely during the war, and several ships were lost. The most famous was, without doubt, SMS Leipzig, which sailed with Graf von Spee's Ostasiengeschwader, triumphed with it at Coronel and found an untimely end at the Battle of the Falklands. Some of the others, Bremen and Lübeck, were also equipped with two 15cm guns.
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| - These seven cruisers were improved versions of the Gazelle class, optimized for greater speed. To accommodate more boilers, a third stack was added. Entering service from 1904 to 1907, these ships started the tradition of naming cruisers after cities in the German Navy and were, as their predecessors, used for various duties. One of them, SMS Lübeck, served as test bed for the new turbine engines. Although not being very modern, they were used intensely during the war, and several ships were lost. The most famous was, without doubt, SMS Leipzig, which sailed with Graf von Spee's Ostasiengeschwader, triumphed with it at Coronel and found an untimely end at the Battle of the Falklands. Some of the others, Bremen and Lübeck, were also equipped with two 15cm guns.
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| - These seven cruisers were improved versions of the Gazelle class, optimized for greater speed. To accommodate more boilers, a third stack was added. Entering service from 1904 to 1907, these ships started the tradition of naming cruisers after cities in the German Navy and were, as their predecessors, used for various duties. One of them, SMS Lübeck, served as test bed for the new turbine engines. Although not being very modern, they were used intensely during the war, and several ships were lost. The most famous was, without doubt, SMS Leipzig, which sailed with Graf von Spee's Ostasiengeschwader, triumphed with it at Coronel and found an untimely end at the Battle of the Falklands. Some of the others, Bremen and Lübeck, were also equipped with two 15cm guns.
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