SMS Hela was an aviso, and later an unarmored cruiser, of the Kaiserliche Marine launched on 28 March 1895 and commissioned on 3 May 1896.

SMS Hela deployed to China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, where she spent most of her time patrolling the Chinese coast and Yangtze River.  In mid-1901, she returned to Germany, where she served briefly with the fleet and as a training ship before being laid up for reconstruction from 1903 to 1910.

At the outbreak of World War I, SMS Hela patrolled the German/Heligoland Bight, where she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS E9 on 13 September 1914.

SMS Hela was an aviso, and later an unarmored cruiser, of the Kaiserliche Marine launched on 28 March 1895 and commissioned on 3 May 1896.

SMS Hela deployed to China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, where she spent most of her time patrolling the Chinese coast and Yangtze River.  In mid-1901, she returned to Germany, where she served briefly with the fleet and as a training ship before being laid up for reconstruction from 1903 to 1910.

At the outbreak of World War I, SMS Hela patrolled the German/Heligoland Bight, where she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS E9 on 13 September 1914.