Name SMS Blücher Completed 21 December 1879 Construction started 1876 Length 82 m Draft 6.18 m | Laid down 1876 Fate Sold 1908 Launched 20 September 1877 Weight 3,332 tons | |
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Namesake Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher Class and type Bismarck-class corvette Builder Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | ||
SMS Blücher was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.
Career
Blücher was commanded by Alfred von Tirpitz from August 1880 to 1884 while he was assigned to the Torpedo School at Kiel. Later the Blücher was a ship of the Torpedo School at Flensburg-Mürwik. She was decommissioned after a boiler explosion in Mürwik in 1909.
References
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