Source U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph photo NH88777. The German corvettes SMS Olga and Olga in the Albert Drydock, Tanjong Tagar, Singapore in the 1880s. Original link
An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 27th reported the arrival of the German steam warship Olga coming from Zanzibar.(1)
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1. Launched as the Ersatz Augusta at Stettin, Germany on 11 December 1880, part of the Carola-class. Commissioned 1881, converted into a training ship after being heavily damaged at Samoa during a hurricane in 1889, sold in March 1906 and broken up in 1908. Armament consisted of 2-8,8cm l/30 quick firing guns and 12-3,7cm revolver guns. Crew numbered 295 men. Displacement 2.147 (standard)-2.424 (maximum) and as dimensions 70,6 (waterline)-76,35 (over all) x 14 x 5,80 metres. The 8 coal-fired cylinder boilers and 1 horizontal 3-cylinder 2-stroke expansion steam engine supplied 2.367 hp allowing via one 2-bladed screw a speed of 1 2 knots and with a speed of 10 knots a range of 3.420 nautical miles.
