SMS Mercur was a merchant vessel of the Prussian Maritime Bank and a transport und training ship the Royal Prussian Navy. After the corvette Amazone Mercur was the second warship of the Prussian Navy. Naming: Mercury, Roman god of the merchants and thieves. The Mercury was built as a cargo ship for the Royal Norwegian. Her first overseas trip in 1848 resulted in ballast to Rio de Janeiro. On the trip, the ship had to be very rank prove. After the expertise in the London shipbuilders Young Mercur was in the front part to sharp built and constantly need ballast. Due to the Danish blockade of the German coasts had the ship from April bis September 1848 remain in the roads of Cowes and then went to Hamburg.
On 18 November 1848 was the Mercur out to Batavia. On the return trip, two crew members were killed, the details are not known. After the dissolution of the actual sea trade she was on 26 March 1850 by the Prussian Navy purchased since the end forehand training ship Amazon was considered inadequate for the training of young future seamens. In the spring of 1850 the ship on the Szczecin shipyard Zieske was rebuilt. Since Prussia still had no private dock, had to make some changes in the Swedish Karlskrona run. First commander of the ship was Captain Johann Otto Donner. On 4 November 1850 left the Mercury to their first training trip Swinoujscie with the aim of Bahia. Still in the Baltic Sea, there were problems with the iron ballast that had to be re jams in Danish Helsingor. Falmouth is renewed problems arose with the ballast, so that at times was uncertain whether the Mercur was suitable for an Atlantic crossing. At last ever started over Funchal and Bahia Tenerife, where they at 23rd January 1851 arrived. In early March, she left Bahia with the aim of Cape Town, but had to cancel due to unfavorable wind conditions in order to start the journey and emergency repairs, the island of St. Helena. On 29 May 1851 she arrived in Szczecin. The rest of the year was used for the Mercury training cruises in the Baltic Sea. On 30 November 1851 she presented at the Naval Depot in Szczecin decommissioned and was overtaken. Here, the recent carronades were replaced by six light field guns. It is unclear whether carronades remained on board or were eliminated. According to an official list of vessels they had 12 guns in 1857. On 21 October 1852, the Mercury put into service again, and sailed in the Squadron Association together under the leadership of Commodore Jan Schroeder with the frigate Gefion and the Amazon to West Africa and South America. Besides training purposes served the travel and the exploration of colonization opportunities in Argentina. After a stay in Monrovia she met on 3 March 1852 in Rio. After a temporary separation of the two other vessels the squadron united again on 12 March in Montevideo. On 4 May the Mercury released from the Squadron Association and entered alone sail the journey home, while Gefion and Amazon hasten to Caribbean ports Norfolk. On 4 June 1853, it reached Danzig and was overtaken again. End of September 1853 left the Mercur Danzig to the Gefion and paddle-steamer korvette Gdansk in the eastern Mediterranean to show the flag. The trip had to be abandoned because of the Crimean War in March 1854. In Portsmouth was the training ship from seven cadets at the Royal Navy, which should be trained further. On 7 May 1854 she was back in Gdansk.
The next few years, the Mercury used either as a school and barracks ship in the Baltic Sea. In June 1856, she collided with a squadron exercise with Danzig. In March 1858, she was declared unseaworthy, but still served as a stationary training ship and was also used for short-term training trips. However, as the sinking of the ship was feared on 14 November 1860 its decommissioning. Mercur was auctioned in December and scrapped 1861
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