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Several naval ships of Germany were named Danzig after the city of Danzig, modern-day Gdansk, Poland.
Preußen or Preussen is the German word for Prussia.
Danzig is the German name of Gdańsk, a city in northern Poland.
SMS Kaiser has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
Kaiserliche Werft Kiel was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1867, first as Königliche Werft Kiel but renamed in 1871, with the proclamation of the German Empire. Together with Kaiserliche Werft Danzig and Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven it was one of three shipyards which produced warships for the Preußische Marine and later the Kaiserliche Marine. With the end of World War I Kaiserliche Werft Kiel was closed but the shipyard was opened again when Deutsche Werke was founded on their grounds in 1925.
The Schichau-Werke was a German engineering works and shipyard based in Elbing, Germany on the Frisches Haff of then-East Prussia. It also had a subsidiary shipyard in nearby Danzig. Due to the Soviet conquest of eastern Germany, Schichau moved to Bremerhaven in March 1945, and its successors continued in business until 2009.
U-116 may refer to one of the following German submarines:
SMS Danzig was a paddle corvette of the Prussian Navy. She was the lead warship during the Battle of Tres Forcas in 1856, one of the first examples of Prussian gunboat diplomacy. She was later decommissioned from the Prussian Navy and served in the navy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate as the Kaiten from 1864 until 1869, and then briefly with the breakaway Ezo Republic until her destruction later the same year.
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Prinz Adalbert:
Two ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Tegetthoff after the Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff:
Several naval ships were named Helgoland after the island of Heligoland or the Battle of Helgoland, an action during the Second Schleswig War.
Three ships of the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Prinz Eugen in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy
In addition to several other ships, two ships of the Imperial German Navy and one ship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor.
Three cruising vessels of the Prussian Navy and later Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Arcona
Several warships of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named SMS Wolf:
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy and two of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Möwe:
Three ships of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named SMS Leipzig, after the Battle of Leipzig:
Several ships of the Prussian and Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Drache (Dragon)
Several ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Greif
Several ships of the Austrian, Prussian, and German navies have been named SMS Salamander:
Three ships of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Radetzky: