Adler (ship, 1889)
|
|
|---|---|
 Side elevation and elevation of the eagle |
|
| Overview | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Shipyard |
Schichau-Werke , Elbing |
| Keel laying | 1888 |
| Launch | August 23, 1889 |
| delivery | 1890 |
| Commissioning | May 21, 1890 |
| home port | Sevastopol |
| Whereabouts | Scrapped in 1923 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
125 t, maximum 164 t |
| length |
47.61 m over everything |
| width |
5.05 m |
| Draft |
2.03 m |
| crew |
22 men |
| drive |
2 cylinder boilers , |
| speed |
28.4 kn |
| Range |
480 nm at a cruising speed of 12 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons , |
The Adler ( Russian : Адлер ) was a torpedo boat built in 1889 near Schichau for the Russian Navy , and when it was completed it was the fastest ship in the world. The boat was the first deep sea torpedo boat in the Russian Navy. In contemporary reporting it was referred to as a torpedo aviso or a torpedo eclaireur boat.
Construction and technical data
The boat was ordered in 1888 for the Russian Black Sea Fleet together with the 400-ton torpedo cruiser Kasarski ( Russian : Казарский ) and the 85-ton torpedo boat Anakreon ( Russian : Анакрео́н ). After the resort Adler on the Black Sea in the Caucasus -Küste near Sochi named Adler ran in 1889 in Elbing from the stack and was delivered in 1890 and put into service. She was 47.6 m long and 5.05 m wide, had a maximum draft of 2.03 m and displaced 125 tons standard and 164 tons maximum. The armament consisted of three 15-inch torpedo tubes (38.1 cm), one of which was rigidly installed in the bow and the other two were pivoted on the deck, and two 3.7 cm revolver cannons . The crew consisted of 22 men. The first in command was the later Admiral Karl Petrowitsch Jessen .
The design developed by Schichau was new and turned out to be extremely successful. The boat was powered by two triple expansion steam engines with two Schichau steam locomotive boilers with a total output of 2200 hp via two screws . The Russian Navy had requested a cruising speed of 26.5 knots during a two hour uninterrupted voyage, which was widely believed to be impossible, but the boat reached an average speed of 26.55 knots and a top speed of 28.4 knots during the test drive . This made it the fastest ship built to date. Up to 50 tons of coal could be bunkered , and the range was 480 nm at a cruising speed of 12 knots.
Career and whereabouts
The ship was converted from coal to oil firing in 1900. On August 4, 1895, it was renamed ship number 259 . In 1915 the Bugtorpedorohr was expanded, the artillery armament on a 7.6cm gun and two 47-cm Hotchkiss - rapid-fire guns changed and the ship after this conversion on 15 July 1915 as Tender Letuchi ( Russian : Летучий ) into service posed. On October 12, 1916, it was renamed again, now to Aviso number 8 .
On May 1, 1918, the ship fell into German hands during the occupation of Sevastopol , and into British hands in December 1918. In April 1919 it was sunk by British troops off Sevastopol before the Red Army occupied the city and port. The wreck was scrapped in 1923.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Tödt: The Krupps of the East. Schichau and his heirs: an industrial dynasty on the Baltic Sea. Pro Business, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86386-345-6 , p. 54
- ^ A b Franz Maria Feldhaus: Schichau, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, p. 6 f.
- ↑ The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld., 1875-1929), Trove Digitized Newspapers and more
- ↑ German shipyard Schichau building Russian warships according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad 1890-1891 no. 4
- ↑ Russian warships. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 276, 1890, Miszelle 2, p. 597.
- ↑ http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.fr/2013/03/german-shipyard-schichau-building.html