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Bussard-class cruiser
The ''Bussard'' class of unprotected cruisers were built for the German ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy) in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The class comprised six ships: , the lead ship, , , , , and . Designed for service in Germany's colonial empire, the class emphasized a long-range cruising radius and relatively heavy armament; they were also the last cruisers in the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' to be equipped with an auxiliary sailing rig. The ships were equipped with eight guns.
All six ships served abroad for the majority of their careers, primarily in Africa and the south Pacific, where they assissted in the suppression of uprisings such as the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Sokehs Rebellion in the Caroline Islands. ''Cormoran'' participated in the seizure of the Kiautschou Bay concession in China in 1897, and ''Falke'' was involved in the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. ''Bussard'' and ''Falke'' were broken up for scrap in 1912, but the remaining four ships were still in service following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914.
''Cormoran'' was based in Tsingtao with unusable engines; she was scuttled in the harbor since she was no longer operational. ''Geier'' briefly operated against British shipping in the Pacific before having to put into Hawaii for internment by the then-neutral United States. After the United States entered the war in April 1917, she was seized and commissioned into the US Navy as USS ''Schurz''; she served as an escort until she was accidentally sunk following a collision with a freighter in June 1918. ''Seeadler'' and ''Condor'', meanwhile, had been converted into mine storage hulks after the start of the war. ''Seeadler'' was destroyed by an accidental explosion in 1917. ''Condor'' was the only member of the class to survive the war, and she was scrapped in 1921.
==Design==
The ''Bussard'' class was designed for service abroad in Germany's colonial possessions, and were an improvement over the preceding of unprotected cruisers. The design for the ''Bussard'' class was prepared in 1888. The ships were significantly larger and faster than the ''Schwalbe'' class, but mounted the same battery of guns—though only ''Bussard'' carried the same type of guns—the rest carried a newer, quick-firing model.〔Gröner, pp. 93–97〕〔 They were also the last cruiser class in the German ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy) to be equipped with a sailing rig; the subsequent unprotected cruiser was entirely steam-powered.〔Gröner, pp. 97–99〕
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