SMS Cyclop (1860)
SMS Cyclop was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860. A small vessel, armed with only three light guns, Cyclop served during the three wars of German unification; during the first, the Second Schleswig War on 1864, she guarded the Prussian coastline but saw no action. She supported the army's campaign against the Kingdom of Hanover during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and she defended the Elbe for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, but again took part in no battles. Badly deteriorated by 1872, she was stricken from the naval register in March that year and reconstructed into an iron-hulled gunboat. Recommissioned in 1875, she thereafter served abroad in the German colonial empire before being stricken again in 1888. She was thereafter used as a storage hulk before ultimately being broken up for scrap after 1914.
Illustration of Cyclop's sister ship Meteor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Cyclop |
| Builder | Königliche Werft, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1859 |
| Launched | 8 September 1860 |
| Commissioned | January 1864 |
| Stricken | 19 March 1872 |
| Fate | Reconstructed |
| History | |
| Builder | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig |
| Launched | 5 August 1874 |
| Commissioned | 27 March 1875 |
| Stricken | 2 November 1888 |
| Fate | Broken up after 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Camäleon-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 422 t (415 long tons) |
| Length | 43.28 m (142 ft) |
| Beam | 6.96 m (22 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power | 250 PS (250 ihp) |
| Propulsion | 1 × Marine steam engine |
| Speed | 9.1 knots (16.9 km/h; 10.5 mph) |
| Complement | 71 |
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