SMS Blitz was an aviso of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) built in the early 1880s. She was the lead ship of her class, which included one...

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1886 with SMS Sperber and Habichtwere the first boats of this 78 t-displacement type. Five more boats of this type from Schichau followed in 1888 and 1889...

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SMS Hessen was the third of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the Braunschweig class. She was laid down in 1902, was launched in September 1903, and...

gunboats SMS Cyclop, SMS Camäleon, SMS Habicht, and SMS Scorpion. Based in Stralsund were the gunboats Blitz and Fuchs, and at Danzig was the screw corvette...

SMS Hannover ("His Majesty's Ship Hannover") was the second of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche...

SMS Nürnberg ("His Majesty's Ship Nürnberg"), named after the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, was a Königsberg-class light cruiser built for the German Imperial...

Also in the Mediterranean were the Prussian aviso SMS Preussischer Adler and the gunboats Blitz and Basilisk; these vessels were immediately recalled...

SMS Zieten was the first torpedo-armed aviso built for the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine). She was built in Britain in 1875–1876, and was the...

SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm ("His Majesty's Ship Prince-elector Friedrich Wilhelm") was one of the first ocean-going battleships of the German Kaiserliche...

original on 28 September 2016. Ramakrishnan, Deepa H (25 January 2012). "SMS fillip for garbage collection". The Hindu. Archived from the original on...

SMS Zähringen (German: Seiner Majestät Schiff Zähringen; English: His Majesty's Ship Zähringen) was the third Wittelsbach-class pre-dreadnought battleship...

SMS Pfeil was an aviso of the Imperial German Navy, the second and final member of the Blitz class. Her primary offensive armament consisted of a bow-mounted...

Borckenhagen (1818-1870), and his wife Julie Emilie Helene Seydel (1820-1888). His younger brother Carl Borckenhagen was later to emigrate to South Africa...

SMS Custoza was an ironclad warship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1870s, the only member of her class. She was the first Austro-Hungarian...

as a dumb barge in 1919. Sunk in May Blitz in 1941, raised and resailed. Scrapped in 1955. Belgic 1873 1873–1888 2,652 Launched in 1873 by Harland and...

SMS Kolberg was a light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) during the First World War, the lead ship of her class. She had three...

importance. The theory was originally promulgated in the Secret Doctrine, the 1888 magnum opus of Helena Blavatsky. According to this view, humanity's evolution...

of Arts. The High Court building was damaged in the shelling of Madras by SMS Emden on 22 September 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. It remains...

tug; Klasse 729 Blitz (1862): gunboat, launched 1862 Blitz (1882): aviso, launched 1882 Blitz, remote controlled craft, launched 1910 Blitz: buoy tender...

SMS Baden was one of four Sachsen-class armored frigates of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). Her sister ships were Sachsen, Bayern, and...

Corporation. pp. 36–39. "Machine gun". The Directory of the World's Weapons. Blitz Editions. 1996. ISBN 1-85605-348-2. Jane's Infantry Weapons 1995–96, p....

of uncertainty around the relevant land policy. People are encouraged by SMS to act in unison, and drive from afar to illegally occupy plots which are...

SMS Drache was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860. Budgetary problems delayed her...

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down in 1886 and 1887 and completed by 1888 and 1889, respectively. The ships were based on the previous aviso, SMS Greif, which had proved to be an unsuccessful...

Traffic was repurposed a dumb barge, and in May 1941, she was sunk in the May Blitz at the Canada Dock in Liverpool, and was raised by that October. Due to...

SMS Gneisenau was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s. The ship was named after the Prussian...