SMS Moltke (1877)
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SMS Moltke was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy in the late 1870s. The ship was named after the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. She was the fourth memb
Illustration of Moltke under sail, c. 1895
Moltke serving as a U-boat tender
An unidentified Bismarck-class corvette
Battleship
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A battleship was a heavily armored large warship with a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the larg
SMS Moltke (1877)
…in Kiel on 24 February. The ship was overhauled on returning to Germany before beginning a hydrographic survey of the Adlergrund on 21 May, where the battleship Kaiser Friedrich III had run around and been badly damaged earlier that year. The survey work ended on 18 June, and on 1 August, she began the annual…
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