sentences:  The "Ryazan" was captured southeast of the Korean peninsula by the German light cruiser on 4 August 1914 as the first prize of World War I from the Russian empire.She was taken to Tsingtao in the German colony Kiautschou, where she was converted to an armed merchant raider.The new "Cormoran" replaced the original SMS "Cormoran", a small shallow draft cruiser that had a long Imperial Navy career in the Pacific, having taken part in the events that brought Kiautschou into the German colonial empire in 1897–98.