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|fg=white|bg=lightgray}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''S.M.S. ''Meteor''''' was a torpedo gunboat completed in 1887.
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On 5 October 1894, rescued sailors from the capsized Italian schooner Marco Polo.  In 1898, received mine laying equipment.  !904 saw the installation of deck torpedo tubes and a reduction in masts.  29 April to 22 August 1905 surveyed the Dalmatian coast.  Meteor spent the war stationed out of Pola, largely serving in the convoy escort role, but also going on patrols.
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5 October 1894, rescued sailors from the capsized Italian schooner Marco Polo.  In 1898, received mine laying equipment.  !904 saw the installation of deck torpedo tubes and a reduction in masts.  29 April to 22 August 1905 surveyed the Dalmatian coast.  Meteor spent the war stationed out of Pola, largely serving in the convoy escort role, but also going on patrols.
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==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 13:33, 28 April 2014

S.M.S. Meteor (1887)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Ordered: December 1886
Laid down: 1886[2]
Launched: 27 Aug, 1887[3]
Commissioned: 1887[4]
Scrapped: 1920[5]
Fate: in Italy
S.M.S. Meteor was a torpedo gunboat completed in 1887.

Service

On 5 October 1894, rescued sailors from the capsized Italian schooner Marco Polo. In 1898, received mine laying equipment.  !904 saw the installation of deck torpedo tubes and a reduction in masts. 29 April to 22 August 1905 surveyed the Dalmatian coast. Meteor spent the war stationed out of Pola, largely serving in the convoy escort role, but also going on patrols.

Captains

Armament

Guns

Eight 4.7 cm L33

Torpedos

  • two 45cm torpedo tubes

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Austro-Hungarian Warships of Word War I. p. 38.
  2. Austro-Hungarian Warships of Word War I. p. 38.
  3. Austro-Hungarian Warships of Word War I. p. 38.
  4. Austro-Hungarian Warships of Word War I. p. 38.
  5. Austro-Hungarian Warships of Word War I. p. 38.


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