SMS Fuchs
Fuchs | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Fuchs |
| Operator | |
| Builder | J. W. Klawitter, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1859 |
| Launched | 14 February 1860 |
| Commissioned | 1860 |
| Stricken | 14 November 1882 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 6.69 m (21 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement |
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| Armament |
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SMS Fuchs was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program to strengthen Prussia's coastal defense forces, then oriented against neighboring Denmark. She was armed with a battery of three guns. The ship saw limited time in service. She was activated during the Second Schleswig War in 1864 and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, but she did not engage enemy vessels during either conflict. Fuchs served as a gunnery training ship in the late 1870s and early 1880s, and was then used as a storage hulk for a few years before being broken up.