SMS Blücher (1877)
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Illustration of SMS Blücher by Christopher Rave
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 German Empire
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| Name: | SMS Blücher |
| Namesake: | Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher |
| Builder: | Norddeutsche Schiffbau, Kiel |
| Laid down: | 1876 |
| Launched: | 20 September 1877 |
| Completed: | 21 December 1879 |
| Fate: | Sold 1908 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bismarck-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 3,332 t (3,279 long tons) |
| Length: | 82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 13.7 m (44 ft 11 in) |
| Draught: | 6.18 m (20 ft 3 in) |
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| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km; 2,230 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 404 |
| Armament: | 16 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns |
SMS Blücher was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.
Blücher was commanded by Alfred von Tirpitz from August 1880 to 1884 while he was assigned to the Torpedo School at Kiel. Later the Blücher was a ship of the Torpedo School at Flensburg-Mürwik. She was decommissioned after a boiler explosion in Mürwik in 1909.
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