Basilisk (ship, 1880)

basilisk

The sister ship Natter

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Armored gunboat class Wasp- class Shipyard AG Weser , Bremen Build number 36 building-costs 1,161,000 marks Launch September 14, 1878 Commissioning August 20, 1880 Removal from the ship register September 27, 1910 Whereabouts In 1920 Hamburg scrapped

Ship dimensions and crew length 46.4 m ( Lüa ) 45.5 m ( KWL ) width 10.6 m Draft Max. 3.37 m displacement Construction: 1,098 t Maximum: 1,163 t   crew 76 to 88 men

Machine system machine 4 cylinder boilers 2 inclined 2-cylinder compound machines 1 rudder Machine performance 764 hp (562 kW) Top speed 11.0 kn (20 km / h) propeller 2 four-leaf ⌀ 2.5 m

Armament 1 × Rk 30.5 cm L / 22 (38 shots) from 1883 additionally: 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 35 cm (in the bow, under water, 2 shots) from 1893 additionally: 2 × Rk 8.7 cm L / 24 (200 shots) 2 × Rev 3.7 cm Armor Belt: 102 - 203 mm on 210 mm teak Barbette : 203 mm on 210 mm teak Deck : 50 mm Command tower: 20 mm

The Basilisk was the sixth ship of the Wespe class , a class of eleven armored cannon boats of the Imperial Navy , which was constructed for the defense of the German North and Baltic Sea coasts.

Construction and service time

Like the other units of the Wespe class, the ship with the household name Panzerfahrzeug F was built by Bremer Werft AG Weser . Work began in 1877. As the first unit in its class, the ship received German-made armor as planned . Due to quality problems at Dillinger Hütte , which was commissioned to manufacture the armor plates, the five previous ships had to be equipped with a British make. On September 14, 1878, the new building was launched. The ship was named after a Latin American iguana genus . Work on the basilisk was finished in the summer of 1880. The total cost of the construction amounted to 1.161 million marks .

After the completion of the ship, test drives were carried out from August 20 to September 17, 1880 and the Basilisk was then decommissioned in Kiel . Ten days later, however, it was reactivated and used for training purposes until November 20th. On August 16, 1881, she took part in a naval parade in front of Kaiser Wilhelm I , but without having been officially put into service. This was only made up for on August 20th. Until September 18, 1881, it served again for the training of the crew and was then decommissioned.

Whereabouts

For a little over 29 years, until September 27, 1910, the basilisk remained in reserve without being used again. On that day, it was deleted from the list of warships. In the following period it was used by the leak test command, finally sold in 1919 for 62,660 marks and broken up  in Hamburg the following year .

Commanders

August 20 to September 17, 1880	Lieutenant to the sea Emil von Lyncker
September 27 to November 20, 1880	Lieutenant to the sea Emil von Lyncker
August 20 to September 18, 1881	Captain von Hoven

literature

• Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 161 f .
• Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 2 : Ship biographies from Baden to Eber . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 40 f .

Footnotes

1. ↑ In 1880 the rank referred to the rank of first lieutenant at sea. This name, which is still used today, was only introduced on January 1, 1900.