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1. I was the Flagship of Admiral Togo and took part in a famous battle in the Tsushima Srait.
2. I was the first light German cruiser to use turbines. My sister ship was a very successful and famous raider in the Indian Ocean. I was in action in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands. I was the only ship which escaped the Falklands battle in December 1914. I returned to the west coast of South America and was finally found and sunk by British cruisers when I was completely out of fuel.
3. I was the first battlecruiser ever built. I was in action at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914 and destroyed the German armoured cruiser SMS Scharnhorst. I became flagship of the 3rd battlecruiser squadron and was sunk in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 when SMS Luetzow and SMS Derfflinger hit me several times.
4. I was one of the most famous battleships in the Royal Navy. I was commissioned in 1915 and took part in the battle of Jutland where I was badly damaged because my rudder jammed and I started to run in circles very close to the German battle line. A mayor reconstruction was made in the 1920s and in the late 1930s. I was in action in the Mediterranean in WW2 and was badly damaged by a German guided bomb in 1943. I took part in the D-Day landings and was sold for scrap in the late 1940s.
5. I was together with my sister, the biggest heavy (Washington) cruiser ever built. But I was too late to fight in the Second World War. Later I became a filmstar when I played the role of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in a movie.
6. I was a ship of the 3rd British battlecruiser class. I was in action at Heligoland Bight, at the Battle of the Dogger Bank and at the battle of Jutland. I was the flagship of the British battlecruiser force.
7. I was the only Italian battleship sunk during the attack on Taranto in 1940 and was never repaired.
8. I am the first of the class of the modern German frigates commissioned in the 2000s.
9. I was originally designed as a light cruiser but shortly before my country attacked the US at Pearl Harbour I was refitted as a heavy cruiser with 10x8in guns. I was first of class and saw service in many battles during the war. I was in action at the Battle of Midway and I had a collision with my sister ship Mikuma which was later sunk by US bombers. I was finally sunk in the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944.
10. The Battle of Dogger Bank took place in 1940.
11. When did the Battle of Cape Matapan take place?
12. I was a British St. Vincent class battleship comissionend in 1909. My name is a very traditional one in the RN and I was the eighth ship to have this name. I was in the first battle squadron in Grand Fleet and was in action at Jutland. In 1917 I suffered an magazine explosion and sank in harbour.
13. Name the four ships of the German Koenig Class.
14. I was the last German armoured cruiser ever built. I was in action at Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 and was sunk by British battlecruisers.
15. USS Saratoga was severely damaged by a deck fire in 1967 which was started by a Zuni rocket that was accidently fired from a F4 Phantom. 132 crewman died.
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