Service History
At the outbreak of the war in 1914, the Dresden was preparing for the return journey to Germany. However, orders were changed to prepare for commerce raiding. The Dresden then headed for the South Atlantic and rendezvoused with the German East Asia Squadron under Vice Admiral Count Spee at Easter Island. In company with Count Spee's other ships — the armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau and the light cruisers SMS Leipzig and SMS Nürnberg — the Dresden participated in the Battle of Coronel. Together with SMS Leipzig she damaged the British light cruiser HMS Glasgow and obliged her to retire.
Read more about this topic: SMS Dresden (1907)
Famous quotes containing the words service and/or history:
“But when with moving accents thou
Shalt constant faith and service vow,
Thy Celia shall receive those charms
With open ears, and with unfolded arms.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)
“When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.”
—Erma Brombeck (20th century)