The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
At Sea. c. November 1914. Ships of the German Navy off the coast of Chile. The photograph was taken from the Light Cruiser Dresden with next ahead Light Cruiser Nurnberg then Light Cruiser Leipzig, Cruiser Gneisenau and Cruiser Scharnhorst. (Purchased from German War Museum)
A map showing the apparent movements of the German Far Eastern Fleet and SMS Dresden, from the outbreak of the First World War until the action against the British ships Good Hope, Monmouth and Glasgo
NEW BRITAIN, 1914-08. RABAUL ON SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN EXTENSION OF BLANCHE BAY, WAS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE OF ALL GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN THE PACIFIC. THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS FOUR GERMAN WARSHI
The German light cruisers Dresden, Nurnburg and Leipzig, which operated in the Pacific in the early period of the First World War. The Dresden was sunk off Chile by British ships in March 1915. See
NEW BRITAIN. 1914. PANORAMA OF RABAUL AND BLANCHE BAY ON THE OCCASION OF A VISIT BY PART OF THE GERMAN PACIFIC FLEET SHORTLY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. THE SHIPS WERE THE SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU, NURN
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1914-07. VIEW OF SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN ARM OF BLANCHE BAY, TAKEN FROM THE TOWNSHIP JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WW1. THE VESSELS ARE THE GERMAN WARSHIPS SCHARNHORST, GNEISE
Valparaiso, Chile. November 1914. The German Navy Pacific Squadron at anchor in the harbour. (Purchased from German War Museum)
