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Thanks everyone! Thank you for the kind words! Onwards with history:

Berlin continued her service in the fleet's scouting forces for the following years, participating in manoeuvres in the Baltic, North Sea, Skagerrak and the Atlantic. Her appearance had changed slightly, with a raised forward searchlight platform and rebuilt masts.

The year 1911 was the year of the Second Morocco Crisis. France occupied several points in the country and fought local uprisings that threatened the reigning Sultan. Shortly afterwards, the famous German gunboat Panther arrived in Agadir on July 1st, 1911. She had been on her way home from Cameroon to Germany and was scheduled to coal in Morocco. Agadir was chosen as port, far south from Casablanca and Mogador and the French troops.

Three days after the arrival of Panther, the German cruiser Berlin in Agadir. On the 19th, the German gunboat Eber joined them and Panther continued on her way to Germany on the 20th, where she would receive a major overhaul. French troops came dangerously close to the German ships when they occupied the fort overlooking the harbour at the end of July. For many young officers onboard Berlin this was open provocation, but the captain refrained from any hostile actions. The international crisis and near-confrontation between the European superpowers was eventually resolved between the diplomats in Paris and Berlin, resulting in the Treaty of Fez on November 4th, 1911.

Berlin and Eber remained in Agadir until November 28th. On her way home to Germany, Berlin hit a storm in Bay of Biscay and did not arrive until December 14th.

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Very nice work!

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Great work.

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Great drawings.

Superb work.

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Although it's late, thank you for all the comments.

Now, bringing Berlin to a conclusion:

After returning to the Recon Forces, the cruiser was retired the following year with most of her crew moving to the new cruiser SMS Straßburg.

With the outbreak of the war, Berlin was reactivated and put into the IV. Recon Group. In this position, she mostly performed guard and picket duties in the North Sea, before being transferred to the Baltic in late 1915. After a short stint there, replacing her sister Bremen, she returned to the Recon Forces and the North Sea in January of 1916. Berlin did not participate in the Battle of Jutland because at the time she was in drydock for over two months. In October of 1916 she came under attack from the British submarine E38, which missed with her torpedoes, but damaged her sister München instead. The cruiser survived but had to be tugged back by Berlin. In 1917 Berlin was transferred to Danzig where she was decommissioned, disarmed and used as a tender for the remainder of the war.

Berlin was one of the six remaining active cruisers of the new Weimar Republic after the war and was reactived in 1919 as s training ship for stokers. In 1921-1922 the cruiser was rebuilt, even more so than her sister Hamburg:

The old ramming bow was replaced with a cruiser bow, which included the removal of the forward casemates. The bridge wings were extended and rangefinders installed, the bridge itself was connected with the mast with a bridge. The mast itself received an enclosed spotting platform and the number of forward searchlights was reduced to one. The compass platform was removed and the aft superstructure extended with another rangefinder platform. All the 105mm SK L/40 were replaced with the L/45 model, although she now only had eight of them. The underwater torpedo tubes were removed and instead two deck-mounted tubes behind the middle guns were added. Interestingly, the small aft casemates were kept, although they had been removed on her sister Hamburg.

Returning to the fleet as a training cruiser, Berlin made several training tours to foreign lands, including Spain, Portugal, East Asia and South America. Berlin was also the first ship to visit Australia since the end of the war in 1928. On March 27th, 1929, after returning from her last world tour, she was deactivated once again and put into reserve, her crew moving over to the new cruiser Karlsruhe.

From 1936 onwards and during World War 2, the cruiser was used as a depot ship in Kiel. She survived the war and was handed over to the British, who loaded the ship with gas ammunition and sunk it in the Skagerrak.

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I'm always impressed by your skills with the imperial vessels. You do them fine justice. Well done
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Very nice work!

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