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Magdeburg Class Cruisers - Magdeburg Class Cruisers of the German Imperial Navy, Magdeburg Class Cruisers of the Ottoman Navy (Paperback)
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Magdeburg Class Cruisers - Magdeburg Class Cruisers of the German Imperial Navy, Magdeburg Class Cruisers of the Ottoman Navy (Paperback)
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from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Magdeburg
Class Cruisers of the German Imperial Navy, Magdeburg Class
Cruisers of the Ottoman Navy, Magdeburg Class Cruisers of the Regia
Marina, Mulhouse Class Cruisers, Sms Magdeburg, Sms Breslau, Sms
Strassburg, Sms Stralsund, French Armoured Cruiser Mulhouse,
Italian Cruiser Taranto, Turkish Cruiser Midilli. Excerpt: Seiner
Majestt Schiff Magdeburg was a light cruiser (Kleiner Kreuzer) of
the German Imperial Navy. The first of her class, she was built as
part of the 1908 German naval program. Her class was notable for
being the first to introduce a new hull form and replace the bow
ram with a cruiser bow shape. She was also one of the first light
cruisers to be fitted with an armored waterline. On commissioning
(10 December 1912), she was first used as a torpedo ship, and at
the outbreak of World War I was assigned to the Baltic Sea. It was
her sinking a few weeks after this, and the recovery by the
Russians of one of the ship's codebooks, that provided British
cryptologists with the means of breaking secret German military
communications. The Magdeburg, under the command of Korvettenkapitn
Richard Habenicht, had set out from Memel at the eastern tip of
Prussia to join other German warships attacking Russian ships at
the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. In the early hours of 26
August 1914, while trying to evade approaching Russian vessels, the
ship entered fog near the island of Odensholm and ran aground.
While efforts were being made to free the ship, as a precaution
most of the codebooks and cipher keys were destroyed; some were
retained, however, for communication with rescuers. While the
escorting destroyer V-26 and the light cruiser SMS Amazone were
unsuccessfully trying to free the Magdeburg and had rescued most of
the crew, Ha... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5183658
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Books + Company
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2010 |
First published: |
June 2010 |
Creators: |
Books Llc
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Dimensions: |
152 x 229 x 2mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
28 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-157-87329-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-157-87329-4 |
Barcode: |
9781157873297 |
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