 SMS Bussard in Dar es Salaam
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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | Bussard |
| Laid down | 1888 |
| Launched | 23 January 1890 |
| Commissioned | 7 October 1890 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1913 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bussard-class unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 82.6 m (271 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 4.45 m (14 ft 7 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Range | 2,990 nmi (5,540 km) at 9 knots (17 km/h) |
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SMS Bussard ("His Majesty's Ship Bussard—Buzzard")[a] was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, built in the 1880s. She was the lead ship of her class, which included five other vessels. The cruiser's keel was laid in 1888, and she was launched in January 1890 and commissioned in October of that year. Intended for overseas duty, Bussard was armed with a main battery of eight 10.5-centimeter (4.1 in) guns, and could steam at a speed of 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph).
Bussard served abroad for the majority of her career, first in the East Asia Division in the mid-1890s, and in German East Africa for the first decade of the 20th century. She had a relatively peaceful career; her only major action came while stationed in Asia in 1894. There, she assisted in suppressing a local revolt in Samoa. In 1910, she returned to Germany, where she remained in service for only two more years; she was stricken in October 1912 and scrapped the following year in Hamburg.
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