 Danzig shortly after entering service
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| History | |
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| Name | Danzig |
| Laid down | 1904 |
| Launched | 23 September 1905 |
| Commissioned | 1 December 1907 |
| Stricken | 5 November 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1922–1923 |
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| Class and type | Bremen-class light cruiser |
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| Length | Length overall: 111.1 meters (365 ft) |
| Beam | 13.3 m (43.6 ft) |
| Draft | 5.68 m (18.6 ft) |
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| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Range | 4,690 nmi (8,690 km; 5,400 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Danzig[a] was a light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy. Named for the city of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), she was the seventh and last ship of the Bremen class. She was begun by the Imperial Dockyard in her namesake city in 1904, launched on 23 September 1905 and commissioned on 1 December 1907. Armed with a main battery of ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns and two 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes, Danzig was capable of a top speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph).
Danzig spent the first ten years of her career in the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet. The ship saw extensive service during the First World War; she was present at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, but did not engage British warships. She also saw action in the Baltic Sea against Russian forces, and was badly damaged by a Russian mine in November 1915. Danzig was also involved in Operation Albion, the seizure of the islands at the entrance of the Gulf of Riga, in September 1917. She was thereafter withdrawn from service, and surrendered to Britain after the end of the war as a war prize. Danzig was dismantled for scrap starting in 1921.
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