SMS Salamander

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Several ships of the Austrian, Prussian, and German navies have been named SMS Salamander:

SMS Salamander (1850), a Prussian Nix-class aviso
SMS Salamander (1860), a Prussian gunboat
SMS Salamander (1861), an Austrian Drache-class ironclad
SMS Salamander (1880), a German armored gunboat
SMS Salamander (1891), an Austrian minelayer

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.

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