Adler (ship, 1885)

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Ship data
flag	Austria-Hungary
other ship names	P 41
Ship type	Torpedo boat
Shipyard	Yarrows , London
Launch	October 9, 1885
Commissioning	February 13, 1886
Decommissioning	1911
Ship dimensions and crew
length	41.14 m ( Lüa )
width	4.2 m
Draft	Max. 1.68 m
displacement	100 t
crew	18 men
Machine system
machine	1 × steam locomotive boiler
Machine ; performance	1,300 PS (956 kW)
Top ; speed	22 kn (41 km / h)
propeller	1
Armament
	2 × Rev 3.7 cm ; 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 35 cm;

The Adler was a coastal torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian Navy .

The ship

Relief of the torpedo boat on the tombstone of Ensign Moriz Grabmayr v. Who died in the explosion. Angerheim at the cemetery of the old parish church of Gries

The boat was in December 1884 on the shipyard of Yarrows Folly Wall, Isle of Dogs , Poplar , London , with the hull number 694 to set keel and ran there on 9 October 1885 from the stack . The low hull was similar to that of a submarine . Behind the command tower, which rose up on the fore ship, were two chimneys standing side by side and behind them two large fans . There was a mast in the fore and aft. The boat was 41.14 m long and 4.2 m wide, had 1.68 m draft and displaced 95-100 tons . A steam locomotive boiler developed 1,300 hp and gave the boat a speed of 22 knots via one screw . Up to 28 tons of coal could be bunkered. The boat was armed with two 35 cm caliber bow torpedo tubes and two 37 mm Hotchkiss revolver cannons on the right and left between the command tower and the chimneys. The crew consisted of two officers and 14-16 men.

fate

The boat was delivered on February 13, 1886. It was used on the Croatian - Dalmatian coast.

On July 22nd, 1899, during a mission to train carrier pigeons , it was on the way from Tivat to Šibenik . Not far north of the island of Korčula and south and south-east of the islands of Šćedro and Hvar, it was shaken by a severe boiler explosion. Five of the 16 men on board were killed and four others seriously injured.

The boat was repaired and then served as Tb 41 , from 1906 as a training ship , like its sister ship Falke or Tb 42 , until it was retired in 1911.

literature

Franz F. Bilzer: The torpedo boats of the kuk Kriegsmarine from 1875-1918 . H. Weishaupt Verlag, Graz, 1996, ISBN 3-90031-016-5
Franz F. Bilzer: The torpedo ships and destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy 1867–1918 . H. Weishaupt Verlag, Graz, 1990, ISBN 3-90031-066-1

Web links

http://www.kuk-kriegsmarine.at/tb41b49.htm
DETAILS OF THE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE AUSTRIAN TORPEDO BOAT ADLER, JULY 22, 1899. In: Journal of the American Society for Naval Engineers. 12, 1900, p. 197, doi : 10.1111 / j.1559-3584.1900.tb04425.x .
Russian, with photo
Model building plan

Footnotes

↑ Yarrows did not move to Scotstoun , Glasgow until 1906–1908 .
↑ http://www.mateinfo.hu/Torpedoboats.pdf

[1] Yarrows did not move to Scotstoun , Glasgow until 1906–1908 .

[2] ttp://www.mateinfo.hu/Torpedoboats.pdf