The "Camäleon" class was a group of gunboats built for the Prussian Navy. Eight ships comprised the class: , , , , , , , and . The vessels were armed with a battery of one gun and two guns. In 1865, the ships then in service had their 15 cm gun replaced with a gun; "Meteor" and "Drache", not yet completed, entered service with that gun. The vessels saw action during the wars of German unification, with "Comet" taking part in the Battle of Jasmund and "Blitz" and "Basilisk" present during the Battle of Heligoland, both during the Second Schleswig War in 1864. Several of the ships served in the North Sea during the Austro-Prussian War, where some of them supported operations against the Kingdom of Hanover. During the Franco-Prussian War, "Meteor" battled the French aviso in the Battle of Havana in 1870; the other members of the class were deployed on coastal defense assignments.