SMS Adler

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.

Propulsion

  • 4-cylinder double-expansion steam engine
  • Coal-fired boilers
  • Speed: 11.0 knots (20.4 km/h; 12.7 mph)

Armament

  • 5 × 12.5 cm (4.9 in) built-up guns
  • 5 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) revolver guns

References

  1. ↑ "Six War Vessels Sunk; Wrecked in a Hurricane at Samoa" (PDF). The New York Times. 30 March 1889.
  2. ↑ http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-a/adler.htm
  • Erich Gröner, Panzerschiffe, Linienschiffe, Schlachtschiffe, Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Kanonenboote = Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 Vol.I, Bernard & Graefe, 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8, pp. 166–7

See also

Coordinates: 13°49′36″S 171°45′53″W / 13.8266°S 171.7647°W / -13.8266; -171.7647


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