SMS "Königsberg" was the lead ship of the of light cruisers, built for the German Imperial Navy during World War I. She took the name of the earlier , which had been destroyed during the Battle of Rufiji Delta in 1915. The new ship was laid down in 1914 at the AG Weser shipyard, launched in December 1915, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in August 1916. Armed with eight &lt;a href="15%20cm%20SK%20L/45"&gt;15 cm SK L/45&lt;/a&gt; guns, the ship had a top speed of .