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Search Welcome to Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit . 6,911,948 articles in English From today's featured article SMS Friedrich Carl was an armored cruiser of the Imperial German Navy . A member of the Prinz Adalbert class , the ship was intended to act as a scout for the fleet's battleships and to patrol the German colonial empire . The Prinz Adalbert class was based on the earlier armored cruiser Prinz Heinrich , but with improved armament and armor. Built in the early 1900s, Friedrich Carl served in the German fleet from 1904 to 1909, which included a period as flagship of the reconnaissance squadron and a cruise to the Mediterranean Sea . The ship was then used as a torpedo test vessel from 1909 until the start of World War I in July 1914. Friedrich Carl was assigned to the...