 Stralsund (or her sister Strassburg) at sea, in 1915 or 1916
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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | Stralsund |
| Namesake | SMS Stralsund |
| Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
| Laid down | 1910 |
| Launched | 4 November 1911 |
| Commissioned | 10 December 1912 |
| Decommissioned | 17 December 1918 |
| Stricken | 5 November 1919 |
| Fate | Ceded to France in 1920 |
| History | |
 France | |
| Name | Mulhouse |
| Namesake | Mulhouse |
| Acquired | 3 August 1920 |
| Commissioned | 3 August 1922 |
| Stricken | 15 February 1933 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1933–1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Magdeburg-class cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 138.7 m (455 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 4.46 m (14 ft 8 in) |
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| Speed | 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) |
| Range | 5,820 nmi (10,780 km; 6,700 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Stralsund was a Magdeburg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine. Her class included three other ships: Magdeburg, Breslau, and Strassburg. She was built at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen from 1910 to December 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).
Stralsund was assigned to the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet for the majority of her career. She saw significant action in the early years of World War I, including several operations off the British coast and the Battles of Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, in August 1914 and November 1915, respectively. She was not damaged in either action. The ship was in dockyard hands during the Battle of Jutland, and so she missed the engagement. After the end of the war, she served briefly in the Reichsmarine before being surrendered to the Allies. She was ceded to the French Navy, where she served as Mulhouse until 1925. She was formally stricken in 1933 and broken up for scrap two years later.