&sq=&lang=&file=File:SMS_Vineta.png) Vineta in 1902
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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | Vineta |
| Namesake | Vineta |
| Builder | Kaiserliche Werft, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1896 |
| Launched | 9 December 1897 |
| Commissioned | 13 September 1899 |
| Stricken | 6 December 1919 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Victoria Louise-class protected cruiser |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 110.5 m (363 ft) |
| Beam | 17.6 m (58 ft) |
| Draft | 7.08 m (23.2 ft) |
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| Speed | 19.6 knots (36.3 km/h; 22.6 mph) |
| Range | 3,412 nmi (6,319 km; 3,926 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Vineta was a protected cruiser of the Victoria Louise class, built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the 1890s. Vineta was laid down at the AG Vulcan shipyard in 1895, launched in April 1897, and commissioned into the Navy in July 1898. The ship, named for the semi-legendary medieval town of Vineta, was armed with a battery of two 21 cm guns and eight 15 cm guns and had a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).
Vineta served abroad in the American Station for the first several years of her career. While on station in the Americas, she participated in the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903 and bombarded several Venezuelan fortresses. She returned to Germany in 1905 and was used as a torpedo training ship in 1908. She was modernized in 1909–1911, after which she was used as a school ship for naval cadets. In November 1912, she participated in an international naval protest of the First Balkan War. At the outbreak of World War I, Vineta was mobilized into V Scouting Group, but served in front-line duty only briefly. She was used as a barracks ship after 1915, and ultimately sold for scrapping in 1920.