 By 1895 , she was withdrawn from front @-@ line service and used for fishery protection . This duty lasted only a year , after which she was placed out of service . In 1899 , she was reclassified as a light cruiser , along with her sister ship Comet , though both vessels remained out of service . Meteor was used as a harbor guard ship starting on 3 May 1904 . On 24 June 1911 , she was stricken from the naval register and used as a barracks ship in Kiel . She served in this capacity through World War I. After the German defeat , the ship was sold for scrapping in 1919 . Meteor thereafter was broken up in Rendsburg . 
