Medical Operations on SMS EMDEN, 1914.

SMS EMDEN Medical Operations list dated 1914 in German. Two sheets.

Administrative / biographical background
In 1913, she came under the command of Karl von Müller, who would captain the ship during World War I. Emden was run onto the reef on 9 November 1914, and her engines and boilers were flooded. Her breech blocks and torpedo aiming gear were thrown overboard to render the weapons unusable, and all signal books and secret papers were burned. This item was recovered fom the Keeling Islands on 15 May 1915.