The "Adler" Plunging towards the reef at Samoa [SMS Adler was a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy. She was launched 3 November 1883 in the Imperial shipyard in Kiel. On 5 September 1888, she shelled Manono Island and Apolima, Samoa, which were strongholds of Malietoa’s forces. She was wrecked together with the German gunboat SMS Eber, the German corvette SMS Olga, the United States Navy gunboat USS Nipsic, the Navy screw steamer USS Trenton, and the Navy sloop-of-war USS Vandalia on 16 March 1889 in a hurricane at Apia, Samoa, during the Samoan crisis. Twenty crew members lost thei
The "Adler" Plunging towards the reef at Samoa [SMS Adler was a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy. She was launched 3 November 1883 in the Imperial shipyard in Kiel. On 5 September 1888, she shelled Manono Island and Apolima, Samoa, which were strongholds of Malietoa’s forces. She was wrecked together with the German gunboat SMS Eber, the German corvette SMS Olga, the United States Navy gunboat USS Nipsic, the Navy screw steamer USS Trenton, and the Navy sloop-of-war USS Vandalia on 16 March 1889 in a hurricane at Apia, Samoa, during the Samoan crisis. Twenty crew members lost their lives.] from ' The book of the ocean ' by Ernest Ingersoll, Publication date 1898 Publisher: New York, The Century co. Topics include The ocean and its Waves, tides, and building and rigging of voyages and won from the frozen and naval merchants of the of the and of the Fishing and other marine plants of the sea and their life in the sea
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