 Nixe in 1899
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| Class overview | |
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| Preceded by | Carola class |
| Succeeded by | Charlotte |
| History | |
| Name | Nixe |
| Namesake | Nixe |
| Ordered | August 1882 |
| Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
| Laid down | August 1883 |
| Launched | 23 July 1885 |
| Commissioned | 1 April 1886 |
| Stricken | 24 June 1911 |
| Fate | Sold, 1 April 1923 and converted into a lighter, broken up in 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw corvette |
| Displacement | Full load: 1,982 t (1,951 long tons) |
| Length | 63.3 meters (207 ft 8 in) (loa) |
| Beam | 13.2 m (43 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 5.52 m (18 ft 1 in) |
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| Sail plan | Full ship rig |
| Speed | 10.4 knots (19.3 km/h; 12.0 mph) |
| Range | 1,480 nautical miles (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
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SMS Nixe was a screw corvette built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1880s. She was laid down in August 1883, launched in July 1885, and commissioned into the fleet in April 1886. Hopelessly out of date even by the time she was ordered in 1882 and possessing insufficient gun power or speed, she was nevertheless completed as designed. In addition to those shortcomings, she proved to be difficult to handle in service and was particularly affected by wind.
Nixe served as a training ship for naval cadets and apprentice seamen for nearly fifteen years. During this period, she went on overseas training cruises, frequently to South America, the West Indies, or the Mediterranean Sea. She was used as a headquarters ship for the High Seas Fleet from 1906 to 1910, when the Reichstag cut funding for the vessel. She was stricken from the naval register in June 1911 and used as a barracks ship until April 1923, when she was renamed Hulk C and sold to a private shipping company, which converted her into a lighter and used in that role from 1925 to 1930 under her original name, when she was broken up.