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SMS Emden may refer to one of the following ships of the German Kaiserliche Marine and named after the town of Emden on the Ems River:

• SMS Emden (1908), a Dresden-class light cruiser commissioned in 1909. She sank or captured nearly thirty Allied merchant vessels during World War I, and was scuttled after the Battle of Cocos in 1914
• SMS Emden (1916), a Königsberg-class cruiser and scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919

See also

• The German cruiser Emden, launched in 1925, which served throughout World War II.
• The current Emden of the German Navy, a Bremen class frigate commissioned in 1983.

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