page_title: List of ships of the Imperial German Navy
section_title: Avisos
hierarchical_section_title: List of ships of the Imperial German Navy / Avisos
caption_attribution_description: Kaiserliche Marine Greif, Meteor und Jagd spähen bei Brüsterort, Chromo-Lithographie von Willy Stöwer 1894, nr9 aus G. Wislicenus, Unsre Kriegsflotte.
context_page_description: The list of ships of the Imperial German Navy includes all ships commissioned into service with the Imperial German Navy of Germany, covering the period from 1871, the creation of the German Empire, through to the end of the Empire in 1918.
context_section_description: Zieten class (1,152 tons, 6 x 5 cm guns)
  SMS Zieten, 1876
  Blitz class (1,486 tons, 6 x 8.8 cm guns)
  SMS Blitz, 1882
  SMS Pfeil, 1882
  Greif class (2,266 tons, 2 x 10.5 cm guns, 8 x 8.8 cm guns)
  SMS Greif, 1886
  Wacht class (1,499 tons, 3 x 10.5 cm guns, 4 x 8.8 cm guns)
  SMS Wacht, 1887
  SMS Jagd, 1888
  Meteor class (1,078 tons, 4 x 8.8 cm guns)
  SMS Meteor, 1890
  SMS Comet, 1892
  Hela class (2,000 tons, 4 x 8.8 cm guns)
  SMS Hela, 1895
caption: Lithograph of Greif (left), Meteor (center), and Jagd (right) by Willy Stöwer
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