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Friday 29 March 2024

German gunboat 2nd class SMS Otter 1877-1926

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Second class gunboat. Designed to protect the German merchant shipping against pirates in the Chinese waters but unusable for this purpose. Launched with yard number 110 by F. Schichau, Elbing, Germany on 7 June 1877, commissioned on 11 March 1878, stricken on 29 May 1907 and broken up in 1926. Served as a tender of the artillery training ship, later a coal barge. 

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