SMS Olga was the second member of the Carola class of steam corvettes built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1880s. Intended for...
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worse: SMS Olga came off best, thrown high onto the beach where she was wrecked but many of her crew survived, escaping onto higher ground. SMS Adler and...
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The squadron was composed of the corvettes SMS Bismarck (flagship), SMS Gneisenau, SMS Ariadne, SMS Olga and the steam tender Adler. The squadron departed...
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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...
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The German corvette SMS Olga at the bombardment of Hickorytown, Cameroon (today Douala) on December 21, 1884...
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USS Nipsic) and three German warships (the gunboats SMS Adler and SMS Eber and the corvette SMS Olga), which kept each other at bay over several months...
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colonization occurred. On 16 July 1878, the commander of the screw corvette SMS Ariadne, Bartholomäus von Werner [de] occupied Falealili and Saluafata on...
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1877. Lieutenant-Commander (Korvettenkapitän) Bendemann commanded the SMS Olga in 1884 as part of the newly formed West African-cruiser squadron (Westafrikanische...
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as part of the First Samoan Civil War. About 150 sailors from SMS Olga, SMS Eber and SMS Adler landed 80 marines near Apia to confront the Mata'afas rebels...
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