&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:SMS_Niobe_in_Kiel,_by_Arthur_Renard.png) Niobe in Kiel
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Niobe |
| Namesake | Niobe |
| Ordered | 28 March 1846 |
| Builder | Devonport dockyard |
| Cost | £22,574 |
| Laid down | May 1847 |
| Launched | 18 September 1849 |
| Completed | 5 October 1849 |
| Fate | Sold to the Prussian Navy on 9 July 1862 |
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| Name | SMS Niobe |
| Acquired | 9 July 1862 |
| Out of service | 1890 |
| Stricken | 18 November 1890 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1919 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Diamond-class 28-gun sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 1051 1⁄94 bm |
| Length | 140 ft (42.7 m) |
| Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
| Draught | 17.7 ft (5.39 m) aft |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 1 in (3.4 m) |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Complement | 240 |
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SMS Niobe was a Diamond-class 28-gun sixth-rate sailing frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1840s. She was never commissioned into the Royal Navy, which was converting to steam power, and was sold to Prussia in 1862. She was named after Niobe, a figure from Greek mythology. She served with the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy and the Imperial German Navy as a training ship until stricken and hulked in 1890. Niobe was eventually broken up in 1919.
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