| abstract | - SMS Thetis was the fourth member of the ten-ship Gazelle class, built by the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the Imperial Dockyard in Danzig, laid down in 1899, launched in July 1900, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet in September 1901. Armed with a main battery of ten guns and two torpedo tubes, Thetis was capable of a top speed of . Thetis served in the reconnaissance forces of the High Seas Fleet during her peacetime career. After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she was deployed as a coastal defense ship in the Baltic, where she saw heavy service against the Russians. She supported the German drive on Libau in April–May 1915, and was damaged by mines during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. She was repeatedly attacked by Allied submarines, though she was never hit. In 1917, Thetis was withdrawn from front-line service for use as a gunnery training ship. She survived the war and continued on in service with the Reichsmarine through the 1920s. She was stricken from the naval register on 29 March 1929 and broken up for scrap the following year.
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