&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bundesarchiv_Bild134-B0335,_Fregatte_%22Thetis%22_vor_Anker.jpg) SMS Thetis, the former HMS Thetis, circa 1867.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Thetis |
| Namesake | Thetis |
| Ordered | 23 April 1842 & 16 February 1843 |
| Builder | Devonport dockyard |
| Cost | £51,926 |
| Laid down | 2 December 1844 |
| Launched | 21 August 1846 |
| Commissioned | 30 December 1846 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Prussian Navy on 12 January 1855 |
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| Name | SMS Thetis |
| Acquired | 12 January 1855 |
| Decommissioned | 28 November 1871 |
| Stricken | 28 November 1871 |
| Fate | Broken up in 1894–95 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | 36-gun fifth-rate frigate |
| Displacement | 1,894 long tons (1,924 t) |
| Tons burthen | 1533 14⁄94 bm |
| Length | 164 ft 7.25 in (50.2 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft 8.75 in (14.2 m) |
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| Depth of hold | 13 ft 6.5 in (4.128 m) |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 330 |
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HMS Thetis was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. After nearly a decade of service with the British, she was transferred to Prussia in exchange for two steam gunboats. She served with the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy and the Imperial German Navy as a training ship until being stricken in 1871. Thetis was subsequently converted into a coal hulk and broken up in 1894–95.
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