SMS Eber was the last of the six gunboats of the Iltis class of the German Imperial Navy prior to and during World War I. Other ships of the class are SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs, SMS Tiger, SMS Jaguar and SMS Panther. They were built between 1898 and 1903. All of them served primarily overseas, in the German colonies. Eber had a crew of 9 officers and 121 men.
SMSEber was the last of the six gunboats of the Iltis class of the German Imperial Navy prior to and during World War I. Other ships of the class are...
1890s and early 1900s. Other ships of the class are SMS Luchs, SMS Tiger, SMSEber, SMS Jaguar, and SMS Panther. Iltis was 65.2 meters (214 ft) long overall...
USS Nipsic) and three German warships (the gunboats SMS Adler and SMSEber and the corvette SMS Olga), which kept each other at bay over several months...
both alcohol and firearms. On October 1 of that year, the German gunboat SMSEber, with 87 men, anchored off the coast of Nauru. The armed German seamen...
Trindade, 500 miles (800 km) east of the Brazilian mainland, with the gunboat SMSEber, which transferred naval officers, ammunition and armaments to the liner...
SMSEber were less fortunate, because they were caught at the harbour mouth by the initial blow and were bodily picked up and smashed together. Eber sank...
1890s and early 1900s. Other ships of the class were SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs, SMSEber, SMS Jaguar and SMS Panther. Tiger was 65.2 meters (214 ft) long overall...
German colonial empire. Other ships of the class are SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs, SMS Tiger, SMSEber and SMS Panther. Jaguar was 65.2 meters (214 ft) long overall...
agreement with the United Kingdom) to stop the violence. When the German ship SMSEber subsequently arrived in October 1888, a party of marines was dispatched...
SMS M68 was a M1916 type minesweeper built for the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. She entered service on 6 October 1917, but was mined...
as part of the First Samoan Civil War. About 150 sailors from SMS Olga, SMSEber and SMS Adler landed 80 marines near Apia to confront the Mata'afas rebels...
which ended the Nauruan Civil War. On 1 October 1888 the German gunboat SMSEber landed 36 men on Nauru. Accompanied by William Harris the German marines...
SMS Karlsruhe (SMS: Seiner Majestät Schiff [His Majesty's Ship]) in the Caribbean and SMS Dresden on the east coast of Mexico. The gunboat SMSEber was...
1890s and early 1900s. Other ships of the class are SMS Iltis, SMS Tiger, SMSEber, SMS Jaguar and SMS Panther. Luchs was 65.2 meters (214 ft) long overall...
USS Trenton, HMS Calliope, and three German naval vessels, SMS Adler, SMS Olga, and SMSEber, along with six merchantmen. Gale-force winds arose, and preparations...
USS Vandalia, USS Trenton and USS Nipsic and three German warships, SMS Adler, SMS Olga, and SMSEber, keeping each other at bay over several months in Apia harbor...
were the first Roman Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Gilberts. SMSEber of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), was sent to the Pacific...
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