&sq=&lang=&file=File:SMS_Meteor_illustration.png) Illustration of Comet's sister ship Meteor
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| Name | Comet |
| Builder | Königliche Werft, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1 September 1859 |
| Launched | 1 September 1860 |
| Commissioned | 1861 |
| Decommissioned | 1881 |
| Stricken | 30 September 1881 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Camäleon-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 422 t (415 long tons) |
| Length | 43.28 m (142 ft) |
| Beam | 6.96 m (22 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 2.67 m (8 ft 9 in) |
| Installed power | 250 PS (250 ihp) |
| Propulsion | 1 × Marine steam engine |
| Speed | 9.1 knots (16.9 km/h; 10.5 mph) |
| Complement | 71 |
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SMS Comet was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the Prussian Navy (later the Imperial German Navy) that was launched in 1860. A small vessel, armed with only three light guns, Comet served during the Second Schleswig War of 1864 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, part of the conflicts that unified Germany. The ship was present at, but was only lightly engaged in the Battle of Jasmund during the Second Schleswig War. She served in a variety of roles during peacetime, including fishery protection and survey work. Comet went on one lengthy deployment abroad, with an assignment to the Mediterranean Sea from 1876 to 1879. She saw little active service after returning to Germany and was decommissioned and hulked in 1881. The vessel remained in the navy's inventory until at least 1891, being broken up sometime thereafter.