SMS Dresden may refer to one of these ships in the German Imperial Navy:
Dresden is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony.
Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company. Founded in 1851, it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin, today Polish Szczecin. Because of the limited facilities in Stettin, in 1907 an additional yard was built in Hamburg. The now named Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft constructed some of the most famous civilian German ships and it played a significant role in both World Wars, building warships for the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine later.
SMS Kaiser has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
Emden may refer to one of the following German naval ships that were named after the town of Emden on the Ems River:
The Dresden class was a pair of light cruisers built for the Imperial German Navy in the early part of the 20th century. The class comprised SMS Dresden, the lead ship, and SMS Emden. Both ships were laid down in 1906; Dresden was launched in 1907, and Emden followed in 1908. They entered service in 1908 and 1909, respectively. The design for the ships was an incremental improvement over the preceding Königsberg class, being slightly larger and slightly faster, but with the same primary armament of ten 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns. Dresden and Emden were powered by steam turbines and triple expansion engines, respectively, as part of continued experiments with the new turbine technology.
There were two ships in the German Imperial Navy named SMS Königsberg:
Wieblitz Ernst (1883–1973) was a German naval officer during World War I. He was navigation officer on the SMS Dresden on the day of the scuttling.
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Prinz Adalbert:
Several naval ships were named Helgoland after the island of Heligoland or the Battle of Helgoland, an action during the Second Schleswig War.
Several naval ships of Germany were named Karlsruhe after the city of Karlsruhe, Germany:
Several naval ships of Germany were named Magdeburg after the city of Magdeburg, Germany:
Three ships of the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Prinz Eugen in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy
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 one 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 German and Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Greif