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Good articleSMS Karlsruhe has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starSMS Karlsruhe is part of the Light cruisers of Germany series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
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DateProcessResult
December 9, 2011Good article nomineeListed
February 5, 2012Good topic candidatePromoted
March 16, 2014Good topic candidatePromoted
Current status: Good article

Explosion?

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What sort of "spontaneous internal explosion" destroyed the Karlsruhe? Is anything else known about the incident? Peter Bell (talk) 07:01, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There are a range of possibilities, but there hasn't been an investigation into the cause (as far as I'm aware - this is in part due to the fact that the wreck is too deep to dive). It was likely a magazine explosion. These were fairly common during the period - for example, HMS Natal was destroyed by one in 1915 and the Chilean battleship Capitán Prat was nearly destroyed by one in 1916. There were many others. Parsecboy (talk) 10:01, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]