SMS | SMS Viribus Unitis | SMS Novara (1850) | SMS Goeben | SMS Derfflinger | SMS/800 | SMS ''Viribus Unitis'' | SMS ''Seydlitz'' | SMS Seydlitz | SMS Seeadler (auxiliary cruiser) | SMS Scharnhorst | SMS ''Novara | SMS Novara | SMS language | SMS ''Derfflinger'' | SMS Zenta | SMS ''Vineta'' | SMS ''V29'' | SMS Szent István | SMS ''Seeadler'' | SMS ''Scharnhorst'' (1907) | SMS ''Möwe'' | SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm | SMS ''Kronprinz'' | SMS ''Konigsberg'' | SMS ''Komet'' | SMS ''Kaiserin'' | SMS Kaiserin | SMS ''Kaiser'' | SMS ''Grosser Kurfürst'' |
The boat fired a four-torpedo salvo, of which two struck, one hitting the SMS Grosser Kurfürst, while the other struck the SMS Kronprinz; both enemy battleships were considerably damaged.
Together with 11 other German prisoners of war, he was brought to Sydney on the captured steamer SMS Komet and interned on 29 October in a camp at Holsworthy, New South Wales.
Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger.
He was promoted to Leutnant zur See (Second Lieutenant) in 1926 and served on the battleship SMS Elsass.
In 1917, due to the threat posed by German raiders such as SMS Seeadler, Gayundah patrolled off Port Jackson and in the Spencer Gulf, although she made no contact with enemy ships during this time.
She was involved in several actions of the East African campaign including the Battle of Zanzibar, the Raid on Dar es Salaam, blockading SMS Konigsberg in the Rujifi delta, and the Battle of Tanga.
At 10:47, she struck a mine that had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möwe off Cape Wrath.
Other notable exhibits include the huge medieval bombard, Pumhart von Steyr, the original shipbuilder's model of the battleship SMS Viribus Unitis, flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet during World War I, a French observation balloon, the oldest surviving European aircraft, L'Intrépide, and the wreck of SM U-20, an Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine sunk in combat in 1918.
On 13 June 1872, a German fleet composed of SMS Vineta and SMS Gazelle seized Haitian Navy ships Union and Mont Organisé which were anchored in the port, as a means of pressure to have the Haitian government pay a 20,000 thaler debt to a German businessman.
SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
SMS V29, a German World War I torpedo boat sunk during the Battle of Jutland
During the battle Repulse briefly engaged two German battleships, SMS Kaiser and SMS Kaiserin.
SMS Goeben, a German battlecruiser renamed Yavuz Selim after she was transferred to the Ottoman Empire, and later simply as Yavuz