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SMS Brummer (Wreck)

United Kingdom / Scotland / Stromness /
 First World War 1914-1918, shipwreck

For her size she was fast. When she finished her sea trials in 1916, the German Navy knew that the 4,308 ton light cruiser Brummer was going to be as good as the other eight in the Bremse class, possibly even faster as her 33,000hp turbines and twin props gave her a steady top speed of 28 knots.

It was a speed that she soon put to use. Though planned as a fast minelaying cruiser, the 462ft-long Brummer quickly teamed up with her sister ship Bremse and started harassing the Allied Scandinavian convoys with her 5.9inch guns (two mounted at the stern and two at the bow).

The "Two Bs", as they were known to Norwegian convoy commanders, carried out a massacre of nine Allied and neutral ships on 17 October,1917, after sinking the escorting destroyers Mary Rose and Strongbow. The two cruisers worked together for the rest of the war. Their names suited their actions - Brummer is a wasp in German, and Bremse means horsefly.

Despite the number of actions in which they took part, both of these armour-plated warships went through the rest of the war unscathed. After they were scuppered with the other light cruisers in Scapa Flow, only the Bremse was salvaged.
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