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SMS Condor
SMS ''Condor'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Condor''") was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial German Navy. She was the fourth member of the , which included five other vessels. The cruiser's keel was laid down in Hamburg in 1891, she was launched in February 1892, and was commissioned in December of that year. Intended for overseas duty, ''Condor'' was armed with a main battery of eight guns, and could steam at a speed of .
''Condor'' served abroad for the majority of her career, first in German East Africa in the 1890s, followed by a stint in the South Seas Station in the Pacific Ocean in the 1900s. She was present in East Africa amid rising tensions with Britain during the Second Boer War in 1899, and frequently suppressed uprisings in Germany's Pacific island holdings in the decade before the outbreak of World War I. Badly worn out, she returned to Germany in March 1914 and was removed from service. In 1916, she was converted into a storage hulk for mines. After the end of World War I, she was discarded and broken up for scrap in 1921.
==Design==
(詳細はlong overall, with a beam of and a draft of forward. She displaced at full combat load. Her propulsion system consisted of two horizontal 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines powered by four coal-fired cylindrical boilers. These provided a top speed of and a range of approximately at . She had a crew of 9 officers and 152 enlisted men.〔Gröner, p. 97〕
The ship was armed with eight 10.5 cm SK L/35 quick-firing (QF) guns in single pedestal mounts, supplied with 800 rounds of ammunition in total. They had a range of .〔 Two guns were placed side by side forward, two on each broadside, and two side by side aft. The gun armament was rounded out by five revolver cannon.〔Gardiner, p. 253〕 She was also equipped with two torpedo tubes with five torpedoes, both of which were mounted on the deck.〔
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