SMS Amazone (1843)

For other ships with the same name, see SMS Amazone.

300px SMS Amazone
History
Prussia
Name:	SMS Amazone
Ordered:	1839
Builder:	Carmesins Werft, Stettin, Germany
Laid down:	1842
Launched:	24 June 1843
Commissioned:	19 May 1844
Refit:	Königliche Werft Danzig, 1852
Fate:	Sunk 14 November 1861 off the coast of the Netherlands
General characteristics
Displacement:	390 tonnes (380 long tons)
Length:	33.49 m (109 ft 11 in)
Beam:	8.99 m (29 ft 6 in)
Draft:	3.14 m (10 ft 4 in)
Sail plan:	876 square metres (9,430 sq ft)
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 large, 3 small
Complement:	6 officers, 139 men (including cadets)
Armament:	12 18-pounders

SMS Amazone was a three-masted sail corvette (caravel) of the Prussian Navy (Preußische Marine). Her keel was laid down in Grabow near Stettin in 1842 and she was launched on 24 June 1843. Amazone sank in a storm on 14 November 1861 off the coast of the Netherlands with 107 dead.

Amazone was modelled on the French corvette Diligente, with a ship displacement of 370 tonnes and a length overall of 44 metres (144 ft). She had a complement of 145 men and was armed with twelve Swedish 18-pounders.

The ship served as a training vessel for Prussian naval officers of the Navigation School in Danzig, therefore it came under the Ministry of Finance rather than the Ministry of War. Nevertheless, she flew the Prussian war flag.

External links

• deutsche-schutzgebiete.de webpage about SMS Amazone (in German)