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unusual facts about German Imperial Navy



Karl Eduard Heusner

Karl Eduard Heusner (born 8 January 1843 in Perl (today in the German state of Saarland); died February 27, 1891 in Weimar, Germany) was a Vice-Admiral of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

Wilfred Ellershaw

Ellershaw died alongside Kitchener on 5 June 1916 when the boat he was on, HMS Hampshire, was torpedoed by a German U-boat at Scapa Flow.


see also

House of Bismarck

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto von Bismarck.

Marinestation der Nordsee

The Marinestation der Nordsee (North Sea Naval Station) of the German Imperial Navy Kaiserliche Marine at Wilhelmshaven, Germany came out of the efforts of the navy of the North German Confederation.