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SMS Leipzig

Bremen-class cruiserWikipedia

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Sep 26, 2026

WW1: Unusual Tales from The Great War.

WW1: Unusual Tales from The Great War.

6. The German East Asia Squadron

Sep 26 · 2 Mentions

Andy StewartHOST
8:19
Minus the Emden, the Asia Squadron now consisted of four cruisers.
Andy StewartHOST
8:24
the larger sister cruisers, the SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and lighter cruisers, the SMS Leipzig and Nuremberg.
Andy StewartHOST
8:35
At the time, the Leipzig was on a visit to San Francisco on the west coast of the United States.
Andy StewartHOST
8:41
The light cruiser Nuremberg was sent to Hawaii to get news as undersea cables to the German islands had been cut.
Andy StewartHOST
8:50
On the 22nd of September, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau bombed the port of Papeete on the island of Tahiti in search of coal supplies.

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