- Propulsion
- Armament
- References
- See also
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image = Adlerbeforestorm.jpg | Ship caption = Drawing of SMS Adler by Rear Admiral L.A. Kimberly, U.S. Navy
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = | German Empire|naval}} | Ship name = SMS Adler | Ship namesake = German word for "eagle" | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Kaiserliche Werft Kiel | Ship original cost = 881,000 German gold mark | Yard number = 7 | Ship laid down = 1882 | Ship launched = 3 November 1883 | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 27 May 1884 | Ship in service = 1884-1889 | Ship struck = | Ship honours = | Ship fate = 16 March 1889 stranded off Samoa, 20 dead | Ship notes = commander: Fregattenkapitän Frizze
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Habicht Klasse (Hawk class) | 880|t|LT}}/{{convert|1040|t|LT}} | 61.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | 8.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 3.11|-|4.02|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (bow-stern) | Ship propulsion = 4 cylinder, coal-fired, double expansion steam engine | 601|sqm}} | 11|kn|abbr=on}} | 2000|nmi|abbr=on}} at {{convert|9|kn}} | Ship complement = 7 officers, 126 men | 12.5|cm|in|abbr=on}} built-up guns- 5 × {{convert|3.7|cm|in|abbr=on}} revolver guns
| Ship notes =
}} | 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 {{SMS|Eber|1887|6}}, the German corvette {{SMS|Olga}}, the United States Navy gunboat {{USS|Nipsic}}, the U.S. Navy screw steamer {{USS|Trenton|1876|6}}, and the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war {{USS|Vandalia|1876|6}} 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: {{convert|11.0|kn}}
Armament - 5 × {{convert|12.5|cm|in|abbr=on}} built-up guns
- 5 × {{convert|3.7|cm|in|abbr=on}} revolver guns
References1. ^{{cite news |title= Six War Vessels Sunk; Wrecked in a Hurricane at Samoa |newspaper= The New York Times|date= 30 March 1889 |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1889/03/30/106343265.pdf | format=PDF}}
2. ^http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-a/adler.htm
- Erich Gröner, Panzerschiffe, Linienschiffe, Schlachtschiffe, Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Kanonenboote = Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe, 1815-1945 Vol.I, Bernard & Graefe, 1982, {{ISBN|3-7637-4800-8}}, pp. 166–7
See also{{coord|-13.8266|-171.7647|display=title|}}{{1889 shipwrecks}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Adler, SMS}}{{Germany-mil-ship-stub}} 7 : Gunboats of the Imperial German Navy|Shipwrecks of Samoa|History of Samoa|Maritime incidents in 1889|1883 ships|Ships built in Kiel|Gunboats of Germany |