Sms Leipzig
SMS
Leipzig
was a
German
light cruiser
, of the
Bremen
class
. It was commissioned into the
German
High Seas Fleet
in
1906
. The ship was stationed off the west coast of
Mexico
at the outbreak of war in
1914
. She soon joined Admiral
Maximilian von Spee
's
East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron
, and participated in the
Battle of Coronel
, where the German cruiser squadron virtually wiped out the
Royal Navy
force sent to stop them. SMS
Leipzig
was sunk at the
Battle of the Falkland Islands
a month later, where greatly superior British forces sank all but one of von Spee's cruisers. Leipzig
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