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On May 30th, 1912, a German Fleet arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, consisting of battlecruiser Moltke and the light cruisers Bremen and Stettin. They were greeted by President Taft onboard USS Mayflower and toured the East Coast for two weeks before returning home. In December 1912 Bremen was ordered to Liberia to support the gunships Eber and Panther after riots had broken out. The cruiser returned to the East American station in January of 1913 and was recalled home in September. However, her successor, light cruiser Dresden, was not yet ready so while stopping at Madeira, Bremen had to turn around to deal with riots in Mexico, where she remained until January 21st, 1914. While she was then replaced by Dresden, her return home was once again delayed because riots broken out in Haiti. Bremen finally set course for home on February 13th and arrived there on March 18th. The cruiser was decommissioned around a week later for a major overhaul and refit.

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The refit included new funnels and a new cruiser bow. The four fore- and aft mounted 105mm cannons were replaced by two 150mm cannons, at the same time, the masts were moved in a similar position to the later Bremen-class cruisers and teh later Königsberg-class. Those masts had new enclosed spotting tops and double the number of searchlights: two at the main mast and two side-by-side at the fore mast. A small radio hut was installed between the two aft funnels, machinery and rangefinding equipment were overhauled and modernised. Bremen rejoined the fleet on May 27th, 1915 as part of the IV. Squadron.

In August 1915, Bremen participated in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga for which the Germans had assembled 4 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 6 cruisers and 56 torpedo boats.. On August 8th, Bremen saved the crew of T52 after the ship had hit a mine and on August 17th, the cruiser was part of the main strike force consisting of the battleships Nassau and Posen, the cruisers Graudenz, Augsburg, Bremen and Pillau and 31 torpedo boats. Despite scoring hits against their main opponent, the Russian battleship Slava, the Germans retreated after the attack of Allied submarines.

On the evening of December 17th, 1915, Bremen left the harbour of Windau together with torpedoboats V191 and V186. At 17:10, V191 struck a mine and Bremen moved in to save any survivors. However, during this, the cruiser herself ran into two mines and she sank at 18:04. 250 sailors drowned in the sea while 53 could be rescued by V186.

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