German armoured cruiser
Gneisenau, launched 14th June 1906, due to having only 17cm single gun
turrets in wing arrangements, it was under gunned for the battle fleet of
1914. She was used form 1911 onwards at Tsingtao, the German colony in
China and was part of Admiral Graf Spee's East Asian Squadron. She fought
at the battle of Coronel and was finally sunk at the Battle of the
Falklands on 8th December 1914.
Displacement: 11,600 tons. Speed: 22.5
knots. Complement: 764. Armament: eight 8.2 inch guns, six 5.9
inch guns, 18 3.4 inch guns, four 18 inch torpedo tubes.
Sister ship Scharnhorst.