| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | Stuttgart |
| Namesake | Stuttgart |
| Laid down | 1 November 1905 |
| Launched | 22 September 1906 |
| Commissioned | 1 February 1908 |
| Stricken | 5 November 1919 |
| Fate | Surrendered to Britain, 1920, scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Königsberg-class light cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 115.3 m (378 ft) |
| Beam | 13.2 m (43 ft) |
| Draft | 5.29 m (17.4 ft) |
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| Speed | 24.1 knots (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) |
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SMS Stuttgart was a Königsberg-class light cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), named after the city of Stuttgart. She had three sister ships: Königsberg, Nürnberg, and Stettin. Stuttgart was laid down at the Imperial Dockyard in Danzig in 1905, launched in September 1906, and commissioned in February 1908. Like her sisters, Stettin was armed with a main battery of ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and a pair of 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes, and was capable of a top speed in excess of 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph).
Stuttgart was used as a gunnery training ship from her commissioning to the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, when she was mobilized into the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet. There, she saw action at the Battle of Jutland, where she engaged the British cruiser HMS Dublin. Stuttgart was not damaged during the battle. She was converted into a seaplane tender in 1918, and after the end of the war, was surrendered to Britain as a war prize in 1920 and subsequently broken up for scrap.