&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:SMS_Hay_NH_88650.png) Hay later in her career, c. 1894
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Habicht class |
| Succeeded by | Brummer class |
| History | |
| Name | Hay |
| Builder | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1880 |
| Launched | 28 September 1881 |
| Commissioned | 15 June 1882 |
| Stricken | 5 May 1919 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | Full load: 247 t (243 long tons) |
| Length | 34 m (111 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Draft | 2.25 m (7 ft 5 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 9.3 knots (17.2 km/h; 10.7 mph) |
| Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) |
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SMS Hay was a small gunboat built by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1880s. She was intended to serve as a tender for the German fleet's artillery school. This saw the ship primarily used to tow targets for gunners aboard the training ship Mars to engage. As such, she was a small vessel, and carried a light armament. Hay served in this capacity from her commissioning in 1882 until 1906. During that period, beginning in 1892, she was also used to protect fishing grounds in German territorial waters. After being decommissioned in 1906, she was used as a target ship through World War I, and was sold to ship breakers in 1919.