SMS Hamburg
Named after the famous harbour city, the second ship of the class was built at AG Vulcan in Stettin under contract name ‘
K’. She was laid down in 1902, launched on July 25th, 1903, commissioned on March 8th 1904 and then assigned to the I. Cruiser Subdivision of the I. Squadron of High Seas Fleet. There
Hamburg served together with
Friedrich Carl,
Arcona and
Frauenlob. Her duty also included several tours as escort for the Imperial Yacht
Hohenzollern, comparison trials with her sister
Lübeck, the first turbine cruiser of the German Navy and supressing riots in Korfu, together with French and British ships in 1909.
Hamburg was withdrawn from active service and put into reserve on September 15th, 1909 and returned to active duty a few years later on July 2nd 1912 as a command ship for the U-Boat flotillas.
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