Some of the old film is fascinating, particularly the light cruiser HMAS Sydney taking on the German light cruiser Emden off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. After that initial flurry ...

On the day in 1914 that War was declared, the German light cruiser Emden lay in the Yellow Sea, off Tsingtao, China. Capt. Karl von Muller delivered to his crew an oration, elegant yet fiery.

Nine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and 49 destroyers - the most modern ships of the German High Seas Fleet - were handed over to the Allied forces off the east of ...

Heinrich on board SMS Gneisenau and Otto aboard the light cruiser SMS Leipzig. In total, 2,200 German sailors died in the battle. The head of the von Spee family said that the discovery of the ...

During the First World War, when the German light cruiser SMS Emden sunk the Russian protected cruiser Zhemchug off Penang, local fisherman rushed into the Strait of Malacca in small boats to save ...

Australia's first naval battle was a fiery two-hour showdown with a German light cruiser just 3,000km from our shores. The Royal Australian Navy is commemorating the 95th anniversary of the fiery ...

British cruisers also sank two of the three German light cruisers that were accompanying Spee's force. Only the light cruiser Dresden got away, and she was forced by British cruisers to scuttle in ...