 The reversal of course brought her back in range of the British battlecruisers , however , which quickly opened fire and scored several damaging hits . The order to abandon ship was given , and men began gathering on the deck . Engineers set scuttling charges while the men topside prepared to go into the water . At 14 : 25 , the ship rolled over and sank . The survivors expected the British to pick them up , but they instead departed . German ships searched the area three days later , to find only one survivor , Leading Stoker Neumann ; the rest of the crew had died in the water . The wreck was moved in August 1979 to render it less of an underwater hazard . Some parts of the ship were salvaged and are now preserved in the Cuxhaven Shipwreck Museum . 
