SMS Niobe
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SMS Niobe was the second of ten Gazelle-class light cruisers that were built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The Gazelle class was the culmination of earlier unpro
SMS Niobe in Kiel in 1901
Plan, profile, and cross-section of the Gazelle class
Niobe in port, c. 1902
Dalmacija in Kotor after the German invasion in April 1941
Reichsmarine
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The Reichsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Weimar Republic and first two years of Nazi Germany. It was the naval branch of the Reichswehr, existing from 1919 to 1935. In 1935, it was
SMS Niobe
…from active service and used as a headquarters ship for various commands. She was disarmed in 1917, but as one of the cruisers permitted to the postwar Reichsmarine (Navy of the Realm) by the Treaty of Versailles, she was modernized and rearmed in the early 1920s. The ship saw no active service with the Reichsmarine…
The Mürwik Naval School in 1929
Ships of the Reichsmarine on maneuvers in 1929 with a Königsberg-class cruiser on the right
Admiraal Adolf von Trotha
Paul Behncke