The ship depicted on glass no. 2804 is a light cruiser of the Königsberg class, either the
SMS Nürnberg
(named for the city of
Nuremberg), the
SMS Stuttgart (named for the city of
Stuttgart),
or the
SMS Stettin (named for the city of Stettin, today
Szczecin, Poland). The ship eponymous for the cruiser class,
the
SMS Königsberg (named for the city of Königsberg, East Prussia,
today
Калининград (Kaliningrad), Russia), can be ruled out
because the
Königsberg, the first of the four ships of this class, had her three funnels in equally spaced positions, while the other three ships
had their aft funnel placed at a somewhat larger space behind the forward two funnels, which corresponds to the ship depicted on this glass.
The
Nürnberg was built in 1906 by the Imperial Shipyard in
Kiel, was commissioned in 1908 and was sunk on 8 December 1914
in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
The
Stuttgart was built in 1906 at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig (today
Gdańsk, Poland) and was commissioned in 1908;
in 1918 the ship was converted to a seaplane tender housing three sea planes, one on deck and two in hangars. In 1920 the
Stuttgart was surrendered to
Great Britain where she was broken up in the same year.
The
Stettin was built in 1907 by the Vulcan Shipyard in Danzig and was commissioned in the same year; the ship was surrendered to Great Britain
in 1920 and was broken down in
Copenhagen between 1921 and 1923.