* 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 Pommern, German World War I battleship

* 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.

* June 10 – WWI: The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS Szent István is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.

* SMS Prinz Eugen, an Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship

Limpet mines were first used by Italian divers in the sinking of the dreadnought SMS Viribus Unitis in Pula, 1 November 1918.

On 11 April 1908, the Panzerkreuzer SMS Blücher was launched from the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel.

* The SMS Dresden ( 1907 ), a German light cruiser named after the German city, commissioned in 1908 and scuttled by her crew in 1915

* SMS Mainz ( 1908 )

* 1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.

* 1914 – SMS Emden sunk by in the Battle of Cocos.

* Otto von Spee ( 10 July 1890 at Kiel – 8 December 1914, South Atlantic, off Falkland Islands, aboard SMS Nürnberg )

* Heinrich von Spee ( 24 April 1893 at Kiel – 8 December 1914, South Atlantic, off Falkland Islands, aboard SMS Gneisenau )

* Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: His Majesty's Ship ( SMS ) – Seiner Majestät Schiff as the Emperor of Austro-Hungary

The study found that SMS message reminders could reduce the number of missed psychiatric appointments by 25 – 28 %, representing a potential national yearly saving of over £ 150 million.

SMS messaging gateway providers can provide gateway-to-mobile ( Mobile Terminated – MT ) services.

In Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom, the figure was around 35 – 40 SMS messages per month.

In each of these countries, the cost of sending an SMS message varies from € 0. 04 – 0. 23, depending on the payment plan ( with many contractual plans including all or a number of texts for free ).

* 22 July – The Austro-Hungarian Navy battleships Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, Radetzky, and SMS Zrínyi each transport one flying boat from Pola to the Gulf of Cattaro.

* 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 ).

* 16 December – SMS Glyndwr is the first Imperial German Navy aviation ship to be commissioned.

* August 6 – 9 – Plagued by weather and communications problems, German Navy airships prove unable to provide effective reconnaissance support to a minelaying sortie by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Meteor, which scuttles herself when she is intercepted by British light cruisers and destroyers.

* Talk – Essentially Letters to the Editor, although most letters are very short, having been sent via SMS.

His technical assignments included: scientific equipment operator for high altitude research on the WB-57F aircraft ( 1980 – 1981 ); astronaut medical support for the first four Shuttle missions ( 1980 – 1982 ); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( spacesuit ) and Extravehicular Activity ( EVA ) procedures and development, including thermal vacuum testing of the suit ( 1981 – 1984 ); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) procedures and development ( 1982 – 1983 ); astronaut office representative for Shuttle Mission Simulator ( SMS ) development ( 1983 ); support crewman for STS-8 ; CAPCOM for STS-8 and STS-9 ; Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ) hardware and software development team ( 1983 ); Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ) development team ( 1983 ); Deputy Director of NASA Government-furnished and Contractor-furnished Equipment ( 1982 – 1983 ); Chief of Astronaut Public Appearances ( 1985 – 1987 ); Head, Astronaut Office Space Station Manned Systems Division, and Health Maintenance Facility ( 1987 – 1989 ); Astronaut Office representative on space crew selection and retention standards for Space Station ( 1989 – 1991 ).