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995:, South Africa, due to rising tensions between Germany and France. There, they awaited further orders that might come in the event of war between the two countries. After the situation calmed, the Admiralty sent the ships back to the Pacific on 7 May. They arrived in
874:. The ships sent landing parties ashore and took part in battles with local forces in the town on 20 and 21 December. The ships' shallow draft allowed them to proceed upriver to provide gunfire support to the men fighting on land. Once the fighting ended,
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began the voyage back to
Germany on 5 January 1884, and on the way had to stop in Plymouth again due to storm damage. While the ship was under repair, Prince Heinrich again went to visit Queen Victoria in London, this time accompanied by
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was activated for training duties for the first time on 25 July 1893 to take part in divisional exercises with the rest of the fleet that were held every year. These maneuvers concluded on 30 September, after which she was again
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returned to service on 29 March 1898, the two ships operated together in the North Sea. They cruised in the southern North Sea in April and May that year, returning to
Wilhelmshaven on 9 May.
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Development of the German Armored Cruiser 1854–1918, Part II: "The Iron-Cruisers"".
1064:, which she reached on 10 June. The squadron left Singapore on 26 June, bound for another tour in East Africa. In August, she went to several ports in the colony in support of the
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aboard. Repair work lasted for two months, and on 20 June, she left for
Germany. While on the way, she was accidentally rammed and lightly damaged by a British steamship in the
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on 23 July, where they underwent maintenance work. While cruising in East Asian waters later that year, Knorr received orders to take the squadron back to German East Africa.
1323:, Spain. On 30 November, after having returned to Germany, she was decommissioned. She was transferred to the gunnery training school in 1900, and she was converted in the
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in 1898 before being decommissioned late in the year, to be converted into a gunnery training ship. She served in that capacity until 1905, when she was stricken from the
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as part of the West
African Squadron to suppress a rebellion against German rule. Her third cruise took place between 1885 and 1889, and saw the ship alternate between
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class were ordered in the late 1870s to supplement
Germany's fleet of cruising warships, which at that time relied on several ships that were twenty years old.
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s captain suddenly died and the executive officer took command of the vessel. While in Sydney, the ship went into the dry dock there for an overhaul.
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of two 8.8 cm guns and ten 3.7 cm machine cannon. She remained in service in this role until
February 1905, when she was replaced by the
744:, Trinidad and Tobago, from 16 January 1883 to 11 February, and during this period, the ship's captain and Prince Heinrich chartered the steamship
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and the gunboats sent landing parties ashore to defend the plantations. Four days later, they were attacked by
Tamasese's forces; in the ensuing
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returned to fishery protection service in the North Sea on 4 October, though this was interrupted later that month by a training cruise to
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790:, bombs were placed under Prince Heinrich's seat, though both failed to explode. On reaching Kiel on 13 March, the ship was greeted by
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921:. This activity lasted until 14 September, when she was again assigned to the African station. This time, the squadron was sent to
1271:, which had recently been decommissioned temporarily. During this period, she housed the school during the winter months. After
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was reclassified as a third class cruiser, and she was transferred to the
Fisheries School in November to replace the old aviso
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archipelago with a group of experts from the German Sea
Fishing Association. She left Wilhelmshaven on 22 June and arrived off
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served aboard the ship. The second cruise came shortly thereafter, when the German Admiralty sent her to the German colony of
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979:(in what is now Kenya) in January 1887. She was also sent to force the extradition of the murderers of the German explorer
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to suppress unrest in that colony in early February 1885 before returning to Kamerun in mid-March. She was relieved by the
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required the presence of a warship larger than a gunboat. While en route, she embarked the deposed King of Samoa,
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was sent abroad on three major deployments. The first, uneventful voyage came in 1882, and took the vessel to
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as a training ship. Her rigging was reduced and she was assigned to the North Sea Naval Station in 1891.
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returned to Germany on 28 August. Her presence in the archipelago caused a sensation in Russia, and the
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on 2 April; at that point, she left western Africa and returned to Germany, arriving in Kiel on 25 May.
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in December 1880, and she was completed in January 1882.
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1259:in Wilhelmshaven. On 31 March 1897,
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186:76.35 m (250 ft 6 in)
1169:, with the help of Samoans, pulled
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1094:and then to Apia on 14 December.
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375:In the course of her career,
323:was the second member of the
304:6 × 37 mm (1.5 in)
246:double-expansion steam engine
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672:First two deployments abroad
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1568:Sondhaus, Lawrence (1997).
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164:Displacement
152:
124:Commissioned
20:
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1711:Alexandrine
1287:Spitzbergen
1054:, allowing
1020:aground in
882:Wouri River
704:Vizeadmiral
510:metric tons
430:Spitzbergen
418:From 1890,
283:10 officers
1784:1880 ships
1773:Categories
1494:References
1201:Suez Canal
784:Paddington
765:, Emperor
740:stayed in
732:Bridgetown
720:Baltic Sea
660:Sea trials
233:Propulsion
1742:SMS
1630:0043-0374
1366:in 1908.
1356:broken up
1062:Singapore
993:Cape Town
977:Manda Bay
960:Hong Kong
851:Gneisenau
628:laid down
518:full load
514:long tons
506:displaced
496:, with a
450:in 1908.
448:broken up
362:AG Vulcan
358:laid down
332:corvettes
330:of steam
176:long tons
168:Full load
136:Broken up
108:Laid down
1734:Bismarck
1503:(1990).
1382:Sondhaus
1295:sounding
1164:SS
1162:steamer
989:Zanzibar
973:Wituland
934:Bismarck
886:Togoland
871:Bismarck
839:Bismarck
834:flagship
800:ironclad
746:SS
724:Plymouth
632:launched
476:and her
370:launched
293:Armament
158:corvette
116:Launched
80:Namesake
1364:Hamburg
1333:battery
1309:cruiser
1307:sent a
1257:laid up
1111:Vailele
1090:in the
1047:gunboat
985:Kismayo
894:Habicht
890:gunboat
845:Ariadne
824:Kamerun
796:Wilhelm
753:Orinoco
615:Augusta
609:Augusta
574:(cal.)
572:caliber
568:battery
512:(2,386
391:Kamerun
366:Stettin
360:at the
348:battery
174:(2,386
98:Builder
90:Ordered
47:History
1718:Arcona
1704:Sophie
1683:Carola
1669:Carola
1628:
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1399:Gröner
1341:Nymphe
1274:Zieten
1268:Zieten
1219:Danzig
1184:Lübeck
1166:Lübeck
1088:Jaluit
997:Sydney
866:Douala
748:Arthur
622:. Her
607:Ersatz
556:barque
508:2,424
467:Carola
454:Design
326:Carola
269:3,420
218:2,399
183:Length
155:-class
153:Carola
138:, 1908
1736:class
1697:Marie
1526:[
1370:Notes
1360:scrap
1196:Adler
1155:Adler
1144:'
1106:Adler
1082:, in
1006:'
918:Stein
810:Notus
804:Hansa
715:Notus
534:knots
516:) at
502:draft
444:scrap
328:class
266:Range
259:knots
257:13.9
254:Speed
199:Draft
1744:Nixe
1690:Olga
1626:ISSN
1603:ISBN
1574:ISBN
1555:ISBN
1532:ISBN
1509:ISBN
1414:Lyon
1358:for
1347:Olga
1321:Vigo
1316:Olga
1300:Olga
1282:Olga
1262:Olga
1251:Olga
1245:Olga
1235:Olga
1206:Olga
1193:and
1190:Eber
1178:Olga
1172:Olga
1152:and
1149:Eber
1140:Olga
1130:Olga
1120:Olga
1103:and
1100:Eber
1084:Aden
1071:Olga
1057:Olga
1051:Eber
1038:Olga
1033:Apia
1022:Apia
1017:Olga
1002:Olga
968:Olga
951:Olga
939:KAdm
928:Olga
908:Olga
877:Olga
857:Olga
848:and
829:Olga
819:Olga
786:and
774:Olga
758:Olga
737:Olga
710:VAdm
683:Kiel
678:Olga
665:Olga
644:KAdm
626:was
624:keel
600:Olga
563:Olga
551:Olga
498:beam
489:Olga
473:Olga
439:Olga
421:Olga
408:Olga
397:and
378:Olga
356:was
353:Olga
319:Olga
316:SMS
278:Crew
244:1 ×
238:1 ×
212:8 ×
191:Beam
132:Fate
111:1879
93:1878
73:Olga
68:Name
39:Kiel
34:Olga
1622:LIX
1362:in
987:to
542:ihp
364:in
224:ihp
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