Albatross-class gunboat

Etching of SMS Albatross by H.Penner
Class overview
Preceded by	Camäleon class
Succeeded by	Wespe class
Built	1869–1873
Planned	2
Completed	2
Lost	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Displacement	Design: 713 t (702 long tons; 786 short tons) Full load: 786 t (774 long tons; 866 short tons)
Length	56.95 m (186 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	8.32 m (27 ft 4 in)
Draft	3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Installed power	2 × fire-tube boilers 491 metric horsepower (484 ihp)
Propulsion	2 × marine steam engines 1 × screw propeller
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)
Range	1,270 nautical miles (2,350 km; 1,460 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	5 officers 98 enlisted men
Armament	2 × 15 cm (5.9 in) K L/22 built-up guns 2 × 12 cm (4.7 in) K L/23 built-up guns

The Albatross class of steam gunboats comprised two ships: SMS Albatross and Nautilus. They were ordered by the North German Federal Navy, but by the time they had entered service in the early 1870s, the German lands had unified into the German Empire, and so they commissioned into Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1870s.