 SMS Stuttgart was a Königsberg @-@ class light cruiser of the Kaiserliche Marine , named after the city of Stuttgart . She had three sister ships : Königsberg , Nürnberg , and Stettin . Stuttgart was laid down at the Imperial Dockyard in Danzig in 1905 , launched in September 1906 , and commissioned in February 1908 . Like her sisters , Stettin was armed with a main battery of ten 10 @.@ 5 cm ( 4 @.@ 1 in ) guns and a pair of 45 cm ( 18 in ) torpedo tubes , and was capable of a top speed in excess of 25 knots ( 46 km / h ; 29 mph ) . 
