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Thanks for the comments everyone! I have planned what I'll do next and it'll keep me busy for a while. For now it's this class here and there were seven cruisers in it, so it's quite a long way to go still.

With the outbreak of the War, Hamburg rejoined the active fleet, but retained her role as U-Boat Flotilla flagship. On August 6th, 1914, she and Stettin escorted U-Boats out into the North Sea to lure out the British Fleet and have them ambushed by said U-Boats. The mission ended without any encounter of British Ships. As part of the IV. Scouting Group, Hamburg participated in the bombardment of British harbours, once again to lure out parts of the British Fleet and destroy them piece by piece. During one of such encounters, Hamburg and several other destroyers and cruisers encountered and damaged several British destroyers.

On May 21st, 1915 while travelling on the Weser, Hamburg rammed torpedo boat S21 and cut it in half.

In 1916 Hambug participated in the Battle of Jutland. As part of the Scouting Forces, she and V73 escorted the II. Battle Squadron. She did not participate in the early phases of the Battle, but came under fire in the night of May31st, 1916 by British light cruisers. The encounter happened at long range and in poor visibility and Hamburg fired only one salve, but sustained two hits, killing 14 and wounding 25 more. The cruiser underwent repairs until July 26th, 1916.

By 1917, Hamburg was no longer fit for frontline service and was used as a barracks ship for the leader of the U-Boats in Wilhelmshaven. She was not handed over to the allies after the end of the war and was decommissioned in 1919.

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Your threads are always an example to follow.

Beautiful work!

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Superb work. A real treat to look at.

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After the war and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was allowed to keep eight older light cruisers, including Hamburg and her sister Berlin. She rejoined the fleet in 1920 as flagship of the North Sea Security forces and receiving some modifications. The armament remained the same, but the old 105mm L/40 cannons were replaced by the L/45 model. The most visible was walkway installed between the bridge and the forward searchlight platform; three rangefinders were added, one on each bridge wing and one on a platform behind the new aft superstructure.



In 1921 Hamburg escorted a mine sweeping fleet to the White Sea to clear mines laid there by the German auxiliary cruiser Meteor. In 1922 she became part of the North Sea Squadron together with the battleship Braunschweig and light cruiser Arcona. In 1923, her active fleet career ended and the cruiser was assigned to the training forces, where she began her duty in 1924. Over the following years, the front double-searchlight platform was replaced by a single, higher-mounted one and a more concealing spotting top on the mast was added. On February 14th, 1926, Hamburg’s last big journey began: On a world-spanning training tour, the old cruiser visited the West Indies, Central America, went through Panama up to the North American West Coast, then to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia and then through Suez and the Mediterranean back home, arriving on March 20th, 1927. Roughly a month later, on June 30th, she was removed from active duty and placed into reserve. On February 24th, 1931, she was stricken from the naval register.

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Very nice work!

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More stunningly beautiful work!


One small error, the 26) in "1926)" is in grey rather than black.

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Good eye. It has been corrected.

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Excellent thread!

Great work!
Another excellent series.