&sq=&lang=&file=File:SMS_Fuchs.jpg) Schwalbe's sister Fuchs
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| History | |
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| Name | Schwalbe |
| Namesake | Swallow |
| Builder | A. G. Nüscke, Grabow |
| Laid down | 1859 |
| Launched | 14 February 1860 |
| Commissioned | 1 March 1864 |
| Decommissioned | 5 October 1870 |
| Stricken | 19 March 1872 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 41.2 m (135 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 6.69 m (21 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
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| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
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SMS Schwalbe was a steam gunboat of the Jäger class built for the Prussian Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. The ship was ordered as part of a program to strengthen Prussia's coastal defense forces, then oriented against neighboring Denmark. She was armed with a battery of three guns. The ship saw very little activity during her career. She was activated during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark in 1864 and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, being used to defend the Prussian coast. She saw no action against enemy forces in either conflict, however. The ship was found to be in poor condition by the end of the war, and she was discarded in 1872. She was then used as a barge for some time, but her ultimate fate is unknown.