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SMS Stein
Screw Corvette of the German Imperial Navy
SMS Stein was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.
The ship was named after the Prussian statesman Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. She was the sixth member
of the class, which included five other vessels. The Bismarck-class corvettes were ordered as part of a major naval
construction program in the early 1870s, and she was designed to serve as a fleet scout and on extended tours in
Germany's colonial empire. Stein was laid by Vulcan AG, Stettin, Germany in 1878, launched launched on 14 September 1879,
and was commissioned into the fleet on 3 October 1880. She was armed with a battery of twelve 15 cm (5.9 in) guns and had a full ship rig to
supplement her steam engine on long cruises abroad. On 21 May 1908, she converted into an accommodation ship and in 1920 sold for scrap.
