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Sunday, 14 January 2024

German gunboat SMS Möwe visited the Dutch East Indies in 1899

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1898-1899 reported that the German cruiser 3rd class SMS Möwe visited Ternate en Ambon, Dutch East Indies in March 1899.(1)

Note

1. Launched by Schichau-Werke, Elbing on 13 May 1879, commissioned on 31 May 1880, stricken on 9 December 1906 and sold in 1910.

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