Name SMS Adler Commissioned 27 May 1884 Construction started 1882 Builder Kaiserliche Werft Kiel | Laid down 1882 In service 1884-1889 Launched 3 November 1883 | |
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Namesake German word for "eagle" Cost 881,000 German gold mark | ||
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. Twenty crew members lost their lives.
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