{"slug": "imperial-german-navy", "label": "Imperial German Navy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_German_Navy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156649", "qid": "Q156649", "description": "1871–1919 maritime warfare branch of the German Empire's military", "entries": 12, "years": 7, "span": [1900, 1918], "span_label": ["1900 CE", "1918 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "u-boat", "label": "U-boat", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "north-sea", "label": "North Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isle-of-man", "label": "Isle of Man", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baltic-sea", "label": "Baltic Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liverpool", "label": "Liverpool", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1900, "year_label": "1900 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – The Reichstag approves the second of the German Naval Laws allowing expansion of the Imperial German Navy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373317536#June", "title": "1900", "revid": 1373317536, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373343237#July–August", "title": "1906", "revid": 1373343237, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – Helgoland Island air disaster: The first fatalities aboard a German airship occur, when the Imperial German Navy Zeppelin dirigible LZ 14 is forced down into the North Sea off Heligoland during a thunderstorm, killing 16 of the 22 men on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#September", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands: A superior British Royal Navy squadron under Doveton Sturdee defeats ships of the Imperial German Navy under Maximilian von Spee (who goes down with his ship).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#December", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – World War I: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby: Imperial German Navy battlecruisers bombard British North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths, mostly civilians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#December", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#January", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – WWI: Battle of Dogger Bank – The British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser SMS Blücher.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#January", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – WWI: British armed merchantman HMS Bayano is sunk in the North Channel off the coast of Scotland by Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-27. Around 200 crew are lost, a number of bodies being washed up on the Isle of Man, with only 26 saved.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#March", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May", "text": "Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: RMS Titanic's main rival, the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 off the south-west coast of Ireland, killing 1,199 civilians en route from New York City to Liverpool. The best-known of the celebrities on board is American sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#May", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – WWI: The torpedoing of armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only 3 men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea during the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#October", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 31", "text": "May 31–June 1 – WWI: Battle of Jutland, between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet in the North Sea, the war's only large-scale clash of battleships. The result is tactically inconclusive, but British dominance of the North Sea is maintained", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#May", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – WWI: RMS Carpathia (famed for rescuing survivors of the RMS Titanic) is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland, by Imperial German Navy submarine U-55; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#July", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › July"}}]}