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SMS Planet was a survey ship of the Kaiserliche Marine.[1] Her sister-ship was the SMS Möwe.[2]
Description
[edit]Planet was built by AG Weser in Bremen, launched on 2 August 1905 and commissioned on 16 November 1905. The crew of the ship consisted of six officers, four deck officers and 81 petty officers, sailors, stokers, and craftsmen.
History
[edit]At the outbreak of World War I the ship was serving in the German North Pacific islands. On 7 October 1914 the crew of Planet scuttled the vessel off the island of Yap to avoid capture by Japanese naval forces under the command of Rear Admiral Tatsuo Matsumura.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Phillip G. Pattee (2013). At War in Distant Waters: British Colonial Defense in the Great War. Cleis Press. p. 145. ISBN 9781612511948.
- ↑ GND 4959351-1 in the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
- ↑ "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914-1918". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012.
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