SMS Moltke (1877)

S.M.S. Moltke in the port of Kiel ( 1894)

The SMS Moltke was a Covered Corvette the Bismarck class of the Imperial Navy. Like all six ships of this class she was reclassified in 1884 to cruiser frigate. She was named after the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke and served as a training ship for naval cadets and ship's boys.

She was a three-masted sailing vessel, rigged as a full-rigged ship, with steam propulsion. Construction began in 1875. The ship ran on October 18, 1877 in Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 16 April 1878.

As of October 28, 1911, went under the name of Acheron. From 1918 it was used as the Hulk for submarine crews.

In 1920 the ship was wrecked.