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Brummer-class cruiser
The ''Brummer'' class consisted of two light mine-laying cruisers built for the Imperial German Navy in World War I: and . When the war broke out, the Germans had only two older mine-laying cruisers. Although most German cruisers were fitted for mine-laying, a need for fast specialized ships existed. The Imperial Russian Navy had ordered a set of steam turbines for the ''Navarin'' from the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin. This machinery was confiscated on the outbreak of war and used for these ships. Both vessels were built by AG Vulcan.
The two ships laid a series of minefields during their career, though their most significant success came in October 1917, when they attacked a British convoy to Norway. They sank two escorting destroyers and nine of the twelve merchant ships from the convoy. They escaped back to Germany without damage. The two ships were interned at Scapa Flow after the end of the war, and were subsequently scuttled by their crews on 21 June 1919. ''Brummer'' was sunk in deep water and was never raised, but ''Bremse'' was brought up in 1929 and broken up for scrap in 1932–1933.
==Design and construction==
In 1914, AG Vulcan in Stettin was building two sets of high-powered steam turbines for the Russian Navy for use in their new battlecruiser ''Navarin'', then under construction in Russia. After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, which saw Germany and Russia on opposing sides, the German government seized the turbines.〔Novik, p. 185〕 At that time, the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' possessed only two cruisers equipped for mine-laying operations, the cruisers and .〔 The ''Kaiserliche Marine'' ordered AG Vulcan to split ''Navarin''s propulsion system in half and to design a pair of cruiser hulls around the engines. The ships were to be fast mine-layers, capable of mining an area under cover of darkness and quickly returning to port before they could be intercepted. They were designed to resemble the British ''Arethusa'' class cruisers to aid in their ability to operate off the British coast.〔
Design work on the ships was completed quickly in 1914. ''Brummer'' was laid down at the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin in early 1915.〔 Work proceeded quickly, and the ship was launched on 11 December 1915. After the completion of fitting-out work, the ship was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 2 April 1916.〔Gröner, p. 113〕 ''Bremse'' followed her sister the same year at AG Vulcan.〔 She was launched on 11 March 1916 and completed in less than four months; the ship was commissioned into the fleet on 1 July 1916.〔 During construction, the shape of their bow and its resemblance to British cruisers was covered by sheet metal.〔
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