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
Kiel Canal
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The Kiel Canal is a 98-kilometer-long freshwater canal that links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Elbe, t
SMS Moltke (1877)
…concluded in Wilhelmshaven on 30 March 1887. Moltke went to Kiel on 3 June to take part in a celebration marking the beginning of construction on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, after which she took part in the annual fleet maneuvers. On 1 October, the Training Squadron began the winter cruise to the Mediterranean, and in…
Locks at Brunsbüttel connecting the canal to the Elbe estuary and thence to the North Sea
The official opening of the canal with the imperial ship SMY Hohenzollern
The canal as shown in a nautical chart published in 1920
View west-southwest from the aft lounge of the cruise ship Norwegian Dream