The 10 Coln (2) Class Light Cruisers were built to replace wartime losses but only two were completed before WW1 ended. "Dresden" (replacing the ship sunk by HMS Kent & HMS Glasgow in the South American Islands in 1915) and "Coln" (replacing the ship sunk by British Battlecruisers in 1914) were scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919.