SMS Adler explained

SMS Adler was a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy. She was launched 3 November 1883 in the Imperial shipyard in Kiel. On 5 September 1888, she shelled Manono Island and Apolima, Samoa, which were strongholds of Malietoa’s forces. She was wrecked together with the German gunboat, the German corvette, the United States Navy gunboat, the U.S. Navy screw steamer, and the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war on 16 March 1889 in a hurricane at Apia, Samoa, during the Samoan crisis.^{[1] [2]} Twenty crew members lost their lives.

Propulsion

• 4-cylinder double-expansion steam engine
• Coal-fired boilers
• Speed:

Armament

• 5 × 12.5cm (04.9inches) built-up guns
• 5 × 3.7cm (01.5inches) revolver guns

Bibliography

• Erich Gröner, Panzerschiffe, Linienschiffe, Schlachtschiffe, Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Kanonenboote = Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 Vol.I, Bernard & Graefe, 1982,, pp. 166–167

Further reading

• Book: Nottlemann . Dirk . Jordan . John . Warship 2022 . 2022 . Osprey Publishing . Oxford. 63–79 . 978-1-4728-4781-2 . The Development of the Small Cruiser in the Imperial German Navy, Part III: The Gunboats.

See also

• 1889 Apia cyclone

-13.8266°N -171.7647°W

Notes and References

1. News: Six War Vessels Sunk; Wrecked in a Hurricane at Samoa . The New York Times. 30 March 1889 .
2. Web site: SMS Adler (Gunboat, 1885-1889) . Naval Historical Center . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120114173819/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-a/adler.htm . 14 January 2012.