SMS Danzig was a paddle corvette of the Prussian Navy. She was the lead warship during the Battle of Tres Forcas in 1856, one of the first examples of...
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were named Danzig after the city of Danzig, modern-day Gdansk, Poland. SMS Danzig (1825): gunboat SMS Danzig (1851): corvette SMS Danzig (1905): 3,300...
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SMS Rover was a brig built in Great Britain in 1853 by the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke in South Wales for the Royal Navy. In 1862, the Prussian Navy purchased...
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during the Crimean War. 75.66 m (248 ft 3 in) 16.5 m (54 ft 2 in) SMS Danzig (1851) (later Kaiten Maru) 1853–1869 burned 75 m (245 ft) 12 m (40 ft) SS British...
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SMS Nix was the lead ship of the two-vessel Nix class of avisos built for the Prussian Navy in the early 1850s. After commissioning in 1851, Nix saw little...
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looked forward to the completion of the corvette SMS Amazone, it began searching for cadets at the Danzig navigational school to form the ship's crew. Jachmann...
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SMS Salamander was the second and final member of the Nix class of avisos that were built for the Prussian Navy in the early 1850s. The ship saw little...
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SMS Amazone, where he served until 30 September. He then transferred to the training ship Mercur on 1 October. Monts left the ship on 2 November 1851...
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Great White Fleet (1907) Agadir Crisis (1911) Occupation of Veracruz (1914) Danzig crisis (1932) First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–55) Second Taiwan Strait...
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for the Prussian Navy in the early 1850s. The class comprised two ships: SMS Nix and Salamander. They were ordered as part of a modest program to strengthen...
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