| Career (German Empire) | |
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| Name: | Gazelle |
| Laid down: | 1897 |
| Launched: | 31 March 1898 |
| Completed: | 6 October 1900 |
| Out of service: | Hulked, 1916 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gazelle-class light cruiser |
| Displacement: | 2,916 tonnes (2,870 long tons) |
| Length: | 104.4 m (342.5 ft) waterline; 105 m (344.5 ft) overall |
| Beam: | 12.2 m (40.0 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.53 m (18.1 ft) |
| Installed power: | 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 249 |
| Armament: |
10 × 1 - 105 mm (4.1 in) guns |
| Armour: | Deck: 50 mm (2.0 in) |
SMS Gazelle was the lead ship of the Gazelle-class light cruisers built for the Kaiserliche Marine in the late 1890s.
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