* SMS Pommern ( 1904 )

* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.

SMS Lübeck was the first German cruiser to be fitted with turbine engines, which were also trialled in torpedo boat S-125.

* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

On 1 October 1888, the German gunboat SMS Eber landed 36 men on Nauru.

* SMS Posen, a German dreadnought, 1908 – 1922

* SMS Rhein, a 1871 steam-powered ironclad monitor of the German Imperial Navy

March 14: ( WWI ) Royal Navy forced the German light cruiser SMS Dresden ( 1907 ) | SMS Dresden to scuttle.

* October 23 – WWI: Torpedoing of the armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only three men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War.

SMS Hindenburg, a battlecruiser commissioned in the Imperial German Navy in 1917 and the last capital ship to enter service in the Imperial Navy, was also named after him.

* SMS Irene, a German protected cruiser 1887-1921, one of two Irene class cruisers

St Mary's Church contains a memorial to the men of who lost their lives in HMS Monmouth, which was sunk with all hands on 1 November 1914, by German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast at the Battle of Coronel ; the church hosts an annual service in remembrance.

* SMS Hansa ( 1872 ), a German armored corvette

* SMS Hansa ( 1898 ), a German protected cruiser

In 1905, aged seventeen, Canaris joined the German Imperial Navy and by the outbreak of World War I was serving on board the SMS Dresden as an intelligence officer.

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

* SMS Libau, a German vessel which in 1916 posed as the Norwegian Aud while carrying arms to Ireland for the Easter Rising

* SMS Hela, light cruiser of the Imperial German Navy

The most famous captain of a German merchant raider, Felix von Luckner, used a sailing ship SMS Seeadler for his voyage during World War I.

* SMS Kaiser Barbarossa, a German pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1900

Since he was cut off from essential information, Admiral von Spee sent the light cruiser SMS Nürnberg to Honolulu in the United States Territory of Hawaii to obtain the latest newspapers and wire dispatches from the German consul.

The APN defines the services such as wireless application protocol ( WAP ) access, short message service ( SMS ), multimedia messaging service ( MMS ), and for Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access.

The ships were seized at the outbreak of World War I becoming SMS Regensburg, SMS Pillau and SMS Elbing.

He was the great grandfather of Count Felix von Luckner, a German World War I naval officer who commanded the famed merchant raider SMS Seeadler.

At the beginning of World War I, on November 7, 1914, the Ottoman SMS Breslau appeared off the port of Poti and subjected the railway yards there to a bombardment that lasted three-quarters of an hour, without any direct results.

:* SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched 1906, sunk 1914

* The German World War I battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann was named after him.

Overlooking both bays is Scarborough Castle, which was bombarded by the German warships SMS Derfflinger and SMS Von der Tann in the First World War.

Several German navy ships, including the World War I armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, the World War II battleship Scharnhorst, and a post-war frigate, as well as a district of the city of Dortmund and a school in the city of Hildesheim, were named after him.

* Commodore Luigi Rizzo, created 1st Conte di Grado e di Premuda for his services as naval commander in World War I during which he also sank the Austrian battleship SMS Szent István.

Several German navy ships, including the World War I armored cruiser SMS Gneisenau, the World War II battleship Gneisenau, and a post-war frigate were named after him.

* The SMS Dresden ( 1916 ), the second German light cruiser named Dresden, built during World War I as a replacement for her namesake

* SMS Blücher, an armoured cruiser of World War I

** SMS Scharnhorst ( 1907 ), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands

A view of Horta harbour from the SMS Schlesien before the outbreak of World War 2

In September 1962, the 851st SMS became the last Titan I Squadron to achieve alert status.

The 851st SMS became the first Titan I unit to pass.

For example sending an SMS to someone reading " I have to go, the waiter is here " when you are not at a restaurant is an example of a butler lie.

I always keep a wish in my mind and that is to get your SMS.

* 3 August – The Imperial German Navy leases the cargo-passenger ship Answald for conversion into Germanys first seaplane carrier, SMS Answald, designated Flugzeugmutterschiff I ( Airplane Mothership I ).

The activation of the 569th SMS marked the last such activation of a Titan I squadron within Strategic Air Command.