"Dresden" participated in two major battles with the East Asia Squadron. The first, the Battle of Coronel, took place in November, and "Dresden" engaged the British cruiser . The second, the Battle of the Falkland Islands, followed in December, where British battlecruisers annihilated the German squadron; "Dresden" was the only vessel to escape. She eluded her British pursuers for several more months, until she put into Más a Tierra in March 1915. Her engines were worn out and she had almost no coal left for her boilers; the ship's captain contacted the local Chilean authorities to have his vessel interned for the duration of the conflict. There, she was trapped by British cruisers, including her old opponent "Glasgow"; the British violated Chilean neutrality and opened fire on the ship. 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 and was first surveyed in 2002.