SMS Emden

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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:

, 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
, a Königsberg-class cruiser launched in 1915 and scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919