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SMS ''Seeadler'' ("His Majesty's Ship ''Seeadler''—''Sea Eagle''") was an unprotected cruiser of the , the third member of a class of six ships built by the German ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy). Her sister ships included , the lead ship, along with , , , and . ''Seeadler'' was built at the ''Kaiserliche Werft'' (Imperial Shipyard) in Danzig in late 1890, launched in February 1892, and commissioned in August of that year. Intended for colonial service, ''Seeadler'' was armed with a main battery of eight guns and had a top speed of . ''Seeadler'' spent almost her entire career abroad. Following her commissioning, she joined the protected cruiser on a visit to the United States for the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas. She thereafter went to German East Africa, where she was stationed until 1898. She returned to Germany briefly for a modernization in 1898–1899, before being assigned to the South Seas Station in German New Guinea. During her tour in the Pacific, she participated in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China in 1900. Her assignment in the Pacific was interrupted by the 1905 Maji-Maji Rebellion in German East Africa, which prompted the German Navy to send ''Seeadler'' there. ''Seeadler'' remained in East Africa for the next nine years, returning to Germany finally in January 1914. She had spent over thirteen years abroad since her 1899 modernization, the longest period of continuous overseas service of any major German warship. After arriving in Germany, she was decommissioned. She was not mobilized after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, being too old to be of any fighting value. She was instead used as a mine storage hulk outside Wilhelmshaven. On 19 April 1917, her cargo of mines exploded and destroyed the ship, though there were no casualties. Her wreck was never raised for scrapping. ==Design== (詳細はlong overall and had 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS Seeadler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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