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.
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