"Dresden" saw action in the Battle of Coronel in November, where she engaged the British cruiser , and at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December, where she was the only German warship to escape destruction. She eluded her British pursuers for several more months, until she put into Robinson Crusoe Island in March 1915. Her engines were worn out and she had almost no coal left for her boilers, so the ship's captain contacted the local Chilean authorities to have "Dresden" interned. She was trapped by British cruisers, including her old opponent "Glasgow". The British violated Chilean neutrality and opened fire on the ship in the Battle of Más a Tierra. The Germans scuttled "Dresden" and the majority of the crew escaped to be interned in Chile for the duration of the war. The wreck remains in the harbor; several artifacts, including her bell and compass, have been returned to Germany.