Two ships of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) have been named SMS Hertha:
Hertha may refer to:
Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin was a German shipbuilding and locomotive building company. Founded in 1851, it was located near the former eastern German city of Stettin, today Polish Szczecin. Because of the limited facilities in Stettin, in 1907 an additional yard was built in Hamburg. The now named Vulcan-Werke Hamburg und Stettin Actiengesellschaft constructed some of the most famous civilian German ships and it played a significant role in both World Wars, building warships for the Kaiserliche Marine and the Kriegsmarine later.
SMS Kaiser has been the name of two ships of the German Imperial Navy:
Victoria Louise or Viktoria Luise may refer to:
Six ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Flirt:
SMS Hertha was a protected cruiser of the Victoria Louise class, built for the German Imperial Navy in the 1890s. Hertha was laid down at the AG Vulcan shipyard in 1895, launched in April 1897, and commissioned into the Navy in July 1898. The ship was armed with a battery of two 21 cm guns and eight 15 cm guns and had a top speed of 19 knots. Though the five Victoria Louise-class cruisers proved to be disappointing in some ways, they marked the beginning of a decade of German cruiser construction.
SMS Dresden may refer to one of these ships in the German Imperial Navy:
There have been two ships in the German Imperial Navy named SMS Württemberg:
There were two ships in the German Imperial Navy named SMS Königsberg:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bittern, after the bird, the bittern:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Violet, after the flower of the genus viola:
Two ships of the Kaiserliche Marine were named Kronprinz Wilhelm:
Two ships of the Imperial German Navy, and one of the Prussian Navy, have borne the name SMS Vineta, named after the mythic city of Vineta :
Two ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Tegetthoff after the Austrian admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff:
Several naval ships were named Helgoland after the island of Heligoland or the Battle of Helgoland, an action during the Second Schleswig War.
In addition to several other ships, two ships of the Imperial German Navy and one ship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Nautilus, after the Greek word for a sailor.
Three cruising vessels of the Prussian Navy and later Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Arcona
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy and one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Möwe:
Several ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Greif
Two ships of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named SMS Freya: