See also
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
SMS Meteor may refer to one of the following ships:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Meteor after the meteor, a space object.
Thetis is a sea nymph in Greek mythology.
USS Meteor may refer to:
Several naval ships of Germany were named Bremse after the horse-fly :
Several naval ships of Germany were named Brummer after the blow-fly:
Several naval ships of Germany were named Danzig after the city of Danzig, modern-day Gdansk, Poland.
SMS Meteor was a Camäleon-class gunboat of the North German Federal Navy that was launched in 1865. A small vessel, armed with only three light guns, Meteor took part in the Battle of Havana in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. There, she battled the French aviso Bouvet; both vessels were lightly damaged, though Bouvet was compelled to disengage after a shot from Meteor disabled her engine. After the war, Meteor returned to Germany, where her career was limited; she served briefly as a survey vessel. From 1873 to 1877, she was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as a station ship in Constantinople during a period of tensions in the Ottoman Empire. After returning to Germany in 1877, she was decommissioned, converted into a coal hulk and expended as a target ship some time later.
Bouvet was a sail and steam aviso of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She is remembered as the opponent of the German gunboat SMS Meteor during the Battle of Havana in 1870, at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian 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.
Several warships of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named SMS Wolf:
Three ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian navies have been named SMS Basilisk:
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy and one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Möwe:
Three ships of the Imperial German Navy have been named SMS Cyclop:
Several ships of the Prussian and Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Navies have been named SMS Drache (Dragon)
Several ships of the Austrian, Prussian, and German navies have been named SMS Salamander:
Two vessels of the German Kaiserliche Marine have been named Loreley:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beacon:
Three ships of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Navy have been named SMS Radetzky: