SMS Nautilus (1871)

Etching of SMS Albatross
History
German Empire
Name	SMS Nautilus
Ordered	9 November 1869
Builder	Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Laid down	1870
Launched	31 August 1871
Commissioned	4 June 1873
Decommissioned	7 October 1893
Stricken	14 December 1896
Fate	Broken up, 1905
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 496 metric horsepower (489 ihp)
Propulsion	2 × marine steam engines 1 × screw propeller
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 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

SMS Nautilus was the second and final member of the Albatross class of steam gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s.