High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SMS Goeben ("His Majesty`s Ship Goeben") was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben. Along with her sister ship Moltke, Goeben was similar to the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann, but larger and with increased armor protection and two more main guns in an additional turret. Compared to their British rivals in the Indefatigable class, Goeben and Moltke were significantly larger and better armored.