SMS Niobe (1849)

Niobe in Kiel
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Niobe
Namesake	Niobe
Ordered	28 March 1846
Builder	Devonport dockyard
Cost	£22,574
Laid down	May 1847
Launched	18 September 1849
Completed	5 October 1849
Fate	Sold to the Prussian Navy on 9 July 1862
Prussia
Name	SMS Niobe
Acquired	9 July 1862
Out of service	1890
Stricken	18 November 1890
Fate	Broken up, 1919
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Diamond-class 28-gun sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	1051 1⁄94 bm
Length	140 ft (42.7 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	17.7 ft (5.39 m) aft
Depth of hold	11 ft 1 in (3.4 m)
Sail plan	Ship rig
Complement	240
Armament	Upper deck: 20 × 32-pounder (45 cwt)[Note 1] Quarterdeck: 1 × 68-pounder (56 cwt), 10 × 32-pounder (25 cwt) Forecastle: 1 × 68-pounder (56 cwt), 2 × 32-pounder (25 cwt)

SMS Niobe was a Diamond-class 28-gun sixth-rate sailing frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1840s. She was never commissioned into the Royal Navy, which was converting to steam power, and was sold to Prussia in 1862. She was named after Niobe, a figure from Greek mythology. She served with the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy and the Imperial German Navy as a training ship until stricken and hulked in 1890. Niobe was eventually broken up in 1919.
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