Reichsflotte: Sail-Frigates Eckenförde and Deutschland 1849
SMS Eckernförde (left), & SMS Deutschland (right) in 1849. The Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) was the first all-German Navy. It was founded on 14 June 1848 during the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states by the Frankfurt Parliament to provide a naval force in the First Schleswig War against Denmark. The German Confederation, founded in […]
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