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Prussian Navy

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The Prussian Navy (German: Preußische Marine), was the naval force of the Kingdom of Prussia. [1]

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Alexander von Monts

Alexander Graf von Monts de Mazin (born 9 August 1832 in Berlin; died 19 January 1889) was an officer in the Prussian Navy and later the German Imperial Navy.

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Alfred von Tirpitz

Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz (19 March 1849 – 6 March 1930) was a German Grand Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916.

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Battle of Heligoland (1864)

The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson and a joint Austro-Prussian squadron commanded by the Austrian Commodore Wilhelm von Tegetthoff.

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Battle of Jasmund (1864)

The naval Battle of Jasmund (also known as the Battle of Rügen) took place between elements of the Danish and Prussian navies on 17 March 1864 during the Second Schleswig War.

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Battle of Tres Forcas

The Battle of Tres Forcas was a battle on 7 August 1856 between boat crews from the Prussian Navy corvette SMS ''Danzig'' (then on a foreign cruise, commanded by Prince Adalbert of Prussia) and the Riffians, a Moroccan tribe of Berbers.

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Brandenburg Navy

The Brandenburg Navy was the navy of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in Germany from the 16th century to 1701, when it became part of the Prussian Navy.

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Britannia-class steamship

The Britannia-class was the Cunard Line's initial fleet of wooden paddlers that established the first year round scheduled Atlantic steamship service in 1840.

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Camäleon-class gunboat

The Camäleon class was a group of gunboats built for the Prussian Navy.

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Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway

The Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway is a former inter-regional German railway, built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) from Duisburg in the western Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia to Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony on the border of the former Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Some sections of it are now disused. The railway ran from Duisburg via Oberhausen West, Bottrop Nord, Dorsten, Coesfeld, Steinfurt and Rheine to Quakenbrück where it connected with the network of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways. The majority of the line is now closed. The southern section to Bottrop is now used only for freight. The section between Dorsten and Coesfeld is still used for passengers as timetable route 424. Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RVM) operates freight traffic over the section between Rheine and Spelle. For a detailed view of the section between Sigle junction and Walzwerk, see the Duisburg-Wedau–Bottrop Süd railway.

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Eduard von Jachmann

Eduard Karl Emanuel von Jachmann (2 March 1822 – 21 October 1887) was the first Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) of the Prussian Navy.

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Eduard von Knorr

Ernst Wilhelm Eduard von Knorr (8 March 1840 – 17 February 1920) was a German admiral of the Kaiserliche Marine who helped establish the German colonial empire.

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Emil von Richthofen

Emil Karl Heinrich von Richthofen, born 11 July 1810, died 20 June 1895 at Baden-Baden, was a Prussian baron (freiherr) and diplomat.

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Felix von Bendemann

Felix von Bendemann (8 August 1848 – 31 October 1915) was an Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Friedrich von Hollmann

Friedrich von Hollmann (19 January 1842 – 21 January 1913) was an Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) and Secretary of the German Imperial Naval Office under Emperor Wilhelm II.

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Generalinspekteur der Marine

The Generalinspekteur der Marine (Inspector-General of the Navy) was a position in the government of the German Empire.

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German Imperial Admiralty Staff

The German Imperial Admiralty Staff (Admiralstab) was one of four command agencies for the administration of the Imperial German Navy from 1899 to 1918.

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German Imperial Naval High Command

The German Imperial Naval High Command was an office of the German Empire which existed from 1 April 1889 until 14 March 1899 to command the German Imperial Navy.

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German naval history

The German navy has operated under different names.

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German Navy

The German Navy (Deutsche Marine or simply Marine—) is the navy of Germany and part of the unified Bundeswehr ("Federal Defense"), the German Armed Forces.

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Hans von Koester

Hans Ludwig Raimund von Koester (29 April 1844 – 21 February 1928) was a German naval officer who served in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy.

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Her Majesty's Ship

Her or His Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS, is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies.

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HMS Mosquito

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito.

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HMS Rover

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rover.

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HMS Thetis (1846)

HMS Thetis was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

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Hugo Lentz

Hugo Lentz (1859–1944) was an Austrian mechanical engineer, born in South Africa.

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Imperial German Navy

The Imperial German Navy ("Imperial Navy") was the navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire.

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Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu

, later renamed, was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Johann Diedrich Longé

Johann Diedrich Longé (5 December 1779; 10 May 1863, Stralsund, Mecklenburg, Germany) was a Swedish and Prussian naval officer.

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Kaiserliche Werft Kiel

Kaiserliche Werft Kiel ("Imperial shipyard Kiel") was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1867, first as Königliche Werft Kiel but renamed in 1871 with the proclamation of the German Empire.

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Kaiserliche Werften

Kaiserliche Werften were government-owned shipyards which were responsible for the construction and repair of warships of the Prussian Navy from 1871 to 1920.

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Karl Eduard Heusner

Carl Eduard Heusner (8 January 1843 in Perl (today in the German state of Saarland) – 27 February 1891 in Weimar, Germany) was a Vice-Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Karl Rudolf Brommy

Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy (changed his name to reflect the English pronunciation of his original name, Bromme) (10 September 1804 – 9 January 1860) was a German naval officer who helped establish the first unified German fleet, the Reichsflotte, during the First Schleswig War which broke out just before the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.

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Langlütjen

Langlütjen is the name of the two uninhabited artificial islands created in the 19th century, Langlütjen I and Langlütjen II, in the north off the coast of the district Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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List of admirals of Germany

Admirals of Germany have existed since the founding of German sea forces, first with the Reichsflotte and then most predominantly that of the Prussian Navy.

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List of ironclad warships of Germany

Between the mid-1860s and the early 1880s, the Prussian and later Imperial German Navies purchased or built sixteen ironclad warships.

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List of ironclad warships of the Ottoman Empire

In the 1860s and 1870s, the Ottoman Navy ordered or acquired a series of ironclad warships, built almost entirely in foreign shipyards.

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List of naval ships of Germany

The list of naval ships of Germany includes all naval ships which have been in service of the German Navy or its predecessors.

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List of shipwrecks in 1860

The list of shipwrecks in 1860 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1860.

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List of shipwrecks in 1861

The list of shipwrecks in 1861 includes any ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1861.

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Ludwig von Henk

Ludwig von Henk (4 March 1820, Anklam – 17 October 1894) was a German naval officer, who distinguished himself in the Prussian Navy and later in the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire.

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Maat (rank)

Maat is a naval rank of the German Navy equivalent to the army/ air force rank of Unteroffizier.

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Marinestation der Ostsee

The Marinestation der Ostsee (Baltic Sea Naval Station) was a command of both the Imperial German Navy, and the Reichsmarine which served as a shore command for German naval units operating primarily in the Baltic Sea.

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Max von der Goltz

Freiherr Otto Ferdinand Maximilian Leopold von der Goltz (April 19, 1838 in Königsberg, Prussia, Germany – December 20, 1906 in Potsdam, Germany) was an Admiral of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Michael Bille

Michael Johannes Petronius Bille was a Danish-Norwegian, and Prussian naval officer born 8 November 1769 in Stege on the Danish Island of Møn into a naval family which had produced and would produce Danish admirals.

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Military history of Germany

I found the two German commanders documents of 1920 during the digging land in ukraine contact number 00380638775589 While German-speaking people have a long history, Germany as a nation state dates only from 1871.

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Naval warfare

Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving major body of water such as a large lake or wide river.

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Navy League (Germany)

The Navy League or Fleet Association (Deutscher Flottenverein) in Imperial Germany was an interest group formed on April 30, 1898 on initiative of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz through the German Imperial Naval Office (Reichsmarineamt) which he headed (1897–1916) to support the expansion of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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North German Federal Navy

The North German Federal Navy (Norddeutsche Bundesmarine or Marine des Norddeutschen Bundes), was the Navy of the North German Confederation, formed out of the Prussian Navy in 1867.

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Otto Livonius

Otto Daniel Livonius (1 April 1829 – 9 February 1917) was a Vizeadmiral (Vice Admiral) of the German Imperial Navy, serving in the predecessor Prussian Navy and the Navy of the North German Confederation.

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Otto von Diederichs

Ernst Otto von Diederichs (born 7 September 1843 in Minden, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia (today in the German Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia) - died 8 March 1918 at Baden-Baden, Germany) was an Admiral of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), serving in the predecessor Prussian Navy and the Navy of the North German Confederation.

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Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873)

Prince Adalbert of Prussia (Heinrich Wilhelm Adalbert) (29 October 1811 in Berlin – 6 June 1873 in Karlsbad) was a son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Landgravine Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg.

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Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (3 October 1831 – 17 January 1890), was a German prince member of the House of Hesse in the Philippsthal-Barchfeld branch and Konteradmiral (counter admiral) of the Prussian and Imperial German Navy.

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Prussia (disambiguation)

Prussia (Preußen) was a German state that formed the German Empire in 1871.

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Prussian Army

The Royal Prussian Army (Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Prussian Naval Academy

The Prussian Naval Academy was the naval academy of the Prussian Navy.

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Prussian Navy Department

The Prussian Navy Department (Marineministerium) (1861 to 1871) grew out of that established by the Frankfurt National Assembly (1848-1849) for its ‘Imperial Fleet' Reichsflotte.

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Reichsflotte

The Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) was the first navy for all of Germany, established by the revolutionary German Empire to provide a naval force in the First Schleswig War against Denmark.

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Reinhold von Werner

Reinhold von Werner (10 May 1825 – 26 February 1909) was a Prussian and later Imperial German naval officer in the 19th century, eventually reaching the rank of vice admiral.

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RMS Britannia

RMS Britannia was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company.

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Seebataillon

Seebataillon (plural Seebataillone), literally "sea battalion", is a German term for certain troops of naval infantry or marines.

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SMS Amazone (1843)

SMS Amazone was a three-masted sail corvette (caravel) of the Prussian Navy (Preußische Marine).

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SMS Arcona

Three cruising vessels of the Prussian Navy and later Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Arcona.

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SMS Arminius

SMS Arminius  was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy, later the Imperial German Navy.

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SMS Basilisk (1862)

SMS Basilisk was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1862.

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SMS Blitz (1862)

SMS Blitz was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1862.

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SMS Camäleon (1860)

SMS Camäleon was the lead ship of the of steam-powered gunboats of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860.

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SMS Comet (1860)

SMS Comet was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860.

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SMS Cyclop (1860)

SMS Cyclop was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860.

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SMS Danzig (1851)

SMS Danzig was the first steam-powered warship in the Prussian Navy.

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SMS Delphin

SMS Delphin was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860.

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SMS Drache (1865)

SMS Drache was a of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860.

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SMS Friedrich Carl (1867)

SMS Friedrich Carl  was an ironclad warship built for the Prussian Navy in the mid-1860s.

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SMS Gazelle (1859)

SMS Gazelle was an screw-driven frigate of the Prussian Navy built in the 1850s.

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SMS König Wilhelm

SMS König Wilhelm  (King William) was an armored frigate of the Prussian and later the German Imperial Navy.

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SMS Kronprinz (1867)

SMS Kronprinz  was a unique German ironclad warship built for the Prussian Navy in 1866–1867.

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SMS Niobe (1849)

SMS Niobe was a 28-gun sixth-rate sailing frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1840s.

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SMS Prinz Adalbert (1865)

SMS Prinz Adalbert  was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy, originally ordered by the Confederate States Navy.

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SMS Prinz Adalbert (1901)

SMS Prinz Adalbert ("His Majesty's Ship Prince Adalbert") was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia, former Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian Navy.

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SMS Vineta

Two ships of the Imperial German Navy, and one of the Prussian Navy, have borne the name SMS Vineta, named after the mythic city of Vineta.

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SMS Zieten

SMS Zieten was the first torpedo-armed aviso built for the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven (meaning William's Harbour) is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard

Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven (Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard) was a German shipbuilding company in Wilhelmshaven, founded in 1871 and closed in 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Navy

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