Artillery training ship

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Artillery training ships are a type of warship . They belong to the school or aid ships . With the rapid development of naval artillery , special artillery training ships were put into service by the war fleets after 1850 . Most of them were outdated war and auxiliary ships that were converted into artillery training ships. Occasionally vehicles were also rebuilt as artillery training ships. Smaller vehicles are known as artillery school boats. The light cruiser Königsberg , the torpedo boat Luchs and other school boats were also used as artillery school ships in the German Navy .

Artillery school ships were used to train the artillery personnel of the fleets ( naval artillery ). These vehicles were armed with a varying number of guns of various designs, types and calibers , which were also used on the naval warships. In times of war, artillery training ships were used for the rapid, practical training of artillery personnel in order to be able to compensate for the personnel losses on the combat ships due to combat. But they could also take part directly in combat operations as a kind of gunboat . Because of the progressive automation of the loading process and fire control technology in ship artillery, artillery school ships increasingly lost importance after the Second World War and were gradually decommissioned and removed from the fleet lists. The training of the gun personnel takes place today on land and directly on the combat ships.

German artillery school ships

  • Renown (North German Confederation, Imperial Navy, 1872–1881)
  • Mars (Imperial Navy, 1881–1908)
  • Carola (Imperial Navy, 1893–1905)
  • Swabia (Imperial Navy, 1905–1911)
  • Undine (Imperial Navy, 1905–1912)
  • Wettin (Imperial Navy, 1911–1914)
  • Augsburg (Imperial Navy, 1912–1913)
  • Brake (Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, 1931–1941)
  • Brummer (Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, 1935–1940)
  • Carl Zeiß (Navy, until 1942)
  • Mars (Navy, 1941–1944)
  • Barbara (Navy, 1942–1945)
  • Nordland (Navy, 1944-1945)

German artillery school boats

  • Delphin (Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, 1908–1925)
  • Hay (Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, 1907–1932)
  • Dragon (Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, 1908–1945)
  • Distance measuring school boat Eduard Jungmann (Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, 1907–1945)
  • Fuchs (Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, 1906–1928)
  • Fuchs (ex M 130 , Reichsmarine, 1928–1940)
  • Torpedo boat Luchs (Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine, 1927–1940)
  • Ludwig Preusser (Navy, from 1938)
  • Heron (Kriegsmarine, 1943–1945)