SMS Hyäne (1860)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hyäne |
| Operator | |
| Builder | Keier & Devrient, Danzig |
| Laid down | 1859 |
| Launched | April 1860 |
| Commissioned | 1860 |
| Decommissioned | 20 May 1871 |
| Stricken | 17 July 1873 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target ship |
| 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) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement |
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| Armament |
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SMS Hyäne 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 she saw brief action during the Battle of Jasmund on 17 March. She next recommissioned during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, but she did not engage any French warships. In poor condition by that time, she was struck from the naval register in 1873 and sunk as a target ship.