Complex sentence: SMS "Königsberg" was the lead ship of the "Königsberg class" 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.
Split into simpler sentences: SMS "Königsberg" was the lead ship of the "Königsberg class" of light cruisers, built for the German Imperial Navy. She was named after the earlier "Königsberg", which had been severely damaged and forced to scuttle in the Battle of Rufiji Delta in 1915.