| 09.07.1887: |
Greif
is commissioned. |
| -15.09.1887: |
Training and trials to the Shetland Islands. |
| 17.10.1887: |
Decommissioned. |
| 19.03.1889: |
Recommissioned, used as fishery protection ship. |
| Mar - Apr 1889: |
Used by Emperor Wilhelm II to welcome various other German warships. |
| 24.06. - 10.08.1889: |
Escort of the Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern
in its voyage to scandinavia. |
| -30.08.1889: |
Participation in fleet maneuvers, used as a reconnaissance vessel. |
| 30.09.1889: |
Decommissioned. |
| 01.11.1890: |
After reconstruction, the Greif
is recommissioned and attached to the Torpedo-Versuchs-Kommando. |
| 10.06-21.08.1891: |
Reconstruction at the Kaiserliche Werft, Kiel, the 10,5 cm guns are replaced with 8,8 cm ones. |
| 30.08-05.09.1892: |
Participation in fleet maneuvers. |
| 17.04-02.10.1893: |
Repairs and refits. |
| 31.10.1894: |
Decommissioned. |
| 05.05.1897: |
Recommissioned, used as fleet reconnaissance ship. |
| 29.12.1897-20.02.1898: |
Used as flagship of the 1st battleship squadron. |
| 29.02-13.05.1898: |
Repairs.
|
| 01.04.1899: |
Removed from active fleet service, used as an experimental ship for wireless telegraphy and as a training ship. |
| 22.09.1901: |
Decommissioned. |
| 1901: |
Repairs and refits, new boilers are installed, ship is put into the fleet reserve. |
| 21.06.1911: |
Reclassified as special service ship. |
| 25.10.1912: |
Stricken from fleet list. |
| 1917: |
Used as mine hulk. |
| 1921: |
Scrapped in Hamburg. |
