SMS_Adler Knowpia

	Drawing of SMS Adler by Rear Admiral L.A. Kimberly, U.S. Navy
History
Name	SMS Adler
Namesake	German word for "eagle"
Builder	Kaiserliche Werft Kiel
Cost	881,000 German gold mark
Laid down	1882
Launched	3 November 1883
Commissioned	27 May 1884
In service	1884-1889
Fate	16 March 1889 stranded off Samoa, 20 dead
Notes	commander: Fregattenkapitän Frizze
General characteristics
Class and type	Habicht Klasse (Hawk class)
Displacement	880 tonnes (870 long tons)/1,040 tonnes (1,020 long tons)
Length	61.8 m (202 ft 9 in) o/a
Beam	8.8 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draught	3.11–4.02 m (10 ft 2 in – 13 ft 2 in) (bow-stern)
Propulsion	4 cylinder, coal-fired, double expansion steam engine
Speed	11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	7 officers, 126 men
Armament	5 × 12.5 cm (4.9 in) built-up guns; 5 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) revolver guns;

SMS Adler was a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy. She was launched 3 November 1883 in the Imperial shipyard in Kiel. On 5 September 1888, she shelled Manono Island and Apolima, Samoa, which were strongholds of Malietoa’s forces. She was wrecked together with the German gunboat SMS Eber, the German corvette SMS Olga, the United States Navy gunboat USS Nipsic, the U.S. Navy screw steamer USS Trenton, and the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war USS Vandalia on 16 March 1889 in a hurricane at Apia, Samoa, during the Samoan crisis.^[1]^[2] Twenty crew members lost their lives.

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^ "Six War Vessels Sunk; Wrecked in a Hurricane at Samoa" (PDF). The New York Times. 30 March 1889.
^ "SMS Adler (Gunboat, 1885-1889)". Naval Historical Center. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012.

Erich Gröner, Panzerschiffe, Linienschiffe, Schlachtschiffe, Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Kanonenboote = Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 Vol.I, Bernard & Graefe, 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8, pp. 166–167

History
Drawing of SMS Adler by Rear Admiral L.A. Kimberly, U.S. Navy

Name	SMS Adler
Namesake	German word for "eagle"
Builder	Kaiserliche Werft Kiel
Cost	881,000 German gold mark
Laid down	1882
Launched	3 November 1883
Commissioned	27 May 1884
In service	1884-1889
Fate	16 March 1889 stranded off Samoa, 20 dead
Notes	commander: Fregattenkapitän Frizze
General characteristics
Class and type	Habicht Klasse (Hawk class)
Displacement	880 tonnes (870 long tons)/1,040 tonnes (1,020 long tons)
Length	61.8 m (202 ft 9 in) o/a
Beam	8.8 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draught	3.11–4.02 m (10 ft 2 in – 13 ft 2 in) (bow-stern)
Propulsion	4 cylinder, coal-fired, double expansion steam engine
Speed	11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	7 officers, 126 men
Armament	5 × 12.5 cm (4.9 in) built-up guns 5 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) revolver guns