SMS Gneisenau (1879)
The crew attempted to drop the starboard anchor, but it did not catch in the stony ground. "Gneisenau" was driven into the mole repeatedly, striking it with her stern twice before being turned and pushed bow-first on the starboard side, forcing her aground. A merchant ship attempted to come to the crew's aid, but they were unable to connect a line between the two ships before "Gneisenau" began to list 35 degrees. A boat from shore also attempted to rescue the crew, but it too was forced ashore in the heavy seas. Wave action quickly smashed "Gneisenau"s hull against the mole, and part of her crew attempted to find safety by climbing the rigging. The ship rolled over onto her side, and the surviving crewmen reached shore with a line. Forty-one men were killed in the accident, including Kretschmann and the ship's first officer. "Charlotte" and the British ironclad were sent to aid the wounded. Those killed in the sinking were buried in Málaga's cemetery, and the survivors returned to Germany aboard the HAPAG steamship on 2 January 1901.
German submarine U-46 (1938)
Endrass left Kiel on 1 June to patrol the North Sea and into the Atlantic. He was immediately successful, on 6 June "U-46" scored her first kill, the armed merchant cruiser . Endrass followed this up with the Finnish merchant ship SS "Margareta" on 9 June. On 11 June he damaged MV "Athelprince"; the following day he sank SS "Barbara Marie" and SS "Willowbank". His final kill was the Greek SS "Elpis" on 17 June. "U-46" returned to Kiel on 1 July after 31 days at sea, during which five ships had been sunk for 35,347 tons and another for 8,782 tons, had been damaged.
"U-46" relocated to Bergen in August. On 3 August she was spotted by the British submarine . "Triad" surfaced and attacked "U-46" with her 102mm gun at 2230 hours. Endrass dived, pursued by "Triad" but the two submarines subsequently lost contact. "U-46" sailed again on 8 August. It was another highly successful patrol. On 16 August she damaged the Dutch ship SS "Alcinous" and on 20 August torpedoed the Greek vessel . The ship was declared a total loss.
On 27 August "U-46" sank the armed merchant cruiser , followed by SS "Ville de Hasselt" on 31 August, SS "Thornlea" on 2 September and SS "Luimneach", an Irish steamship sailing under a neutral flag, on 4 September. There are differences in the accounts given by the captains. Endrass claimed that Captain Eric Jones and his crew "lost their heads completely" at the shot across the bows from his U-boat. Jones was an experienced captain. The "Luimneach" had survived twelve aerial attacks during the Spanish Civil War. Following an inquiry on 4 March 1941, Dönitz concluded that the U-boat acted correctly in sinking an abandoned ship. "U-46" returned to Lorient on the French Atlantic coast on 6 September, having sunk five ships for 29,883 tons and damaged another for 6,189 tons.