She was laid down at the AG Vulcan Shipyard at Stettin in 1883 with building no. 132, launched on 20 December a year later, commissioned on 8 April 1886, stricken on 13 January 1912 and she became a target ship, sold on 5 May 1919 to the ship-breaking firm Hattinger Company which apparently was done the same year at Wilhelmshaven. She had to be part of the armoured corvettes of the Sachsen-class but lacking money and the fact that the navy was not pleased with this class resulted in a radically alteration of her design.
With a displacement of 5,652 long tons/6,311 short tons/5,249 tons (design)-5,652 long tons/6,331 short tons/5,743 tons were her dimensions 79,8 x 18 x6,28 metres or 262’x 59’x 2.6”. The 2 shaft horizontal compound steam engines and 8 boilers supplied 3,942 ihp allowing a speed of 13,8 knots and with a coal bunker capacity of 348-450 tons a speed of 9 knots she had a range of 1,770 nautical miles. The crew numbered 389 men. She was armed with 8-24cm (9.4”0, 4-15cm (5.9”) guns, 2-8.8cm (3.5”) guns and 4-35cm (14”) torpedo tubes. The armour consisted of a 20-30cm (7.9-12”) thick belt while the casemate for the main guns was protected by 15cm (5.9”), further more a3cm (1.2”) thick, the conning tower which was placed forwards was protected by 5cm (2.0”) thick armour (including a 2,5cm thick roof), while the conning tower which was placed just slightly was placed by 1,5cm (0.95”) thick armour (the roof was 1,2cm/0.47”).
