SMS Gneisenau
SMS "Gneisenau" was an armored cruiser of the German navy, part of the two-ship . She was named after August von Gneisenau, a Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars. The ship was laid down in 1904 at the AG Weser dockyard in Bremen, launched in June 1906, and completed in March 1908, at a cost of over 19 million goldmarks. She was armed with a main battery of eight guns, had a top speed of , and displaced at full combat load.
List of ironclad warships of Germany
SMS "Hansa" was built in 1868–1875, the first ironclad built in Germany; all previous German ironclads had been built in foreign shipyards. This resulted in a much longer period of construction, however, as she was built by the relatively inexperienced Royal Dockyard in Danzig. She was named after the Hanseatic League, known in Germany simply as "Hanse", Latinized "Hansa". The ship was launched in October 1872 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy in May 1875. Designed for overseas service, "Hansa" was classed as an armored corvette and armed with eight 21 cm guns in a central battery.