Crocodill (ship, 1880)
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The Crocodill was the eighth 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
The Crocodill as her sister ships of the Bremen shipyard AG Weser built. Work began in 1878, and the launch took place on September 19, 1879. On May 26, 1880 it could be handed over to the Navy.
The Crocodill was first put into service on September 20, 1880 for a month of test drives. Then she was assigned to the naval station of the Baltic Sea and decommissioned on October 20.
In the summer of 1884 an armored gunboat flotilla with a cricket was formed as its flagship . In addition to cricket and crocodile, it consisted of bees , camaeleons and bumblebees as well as adder , which replaced the bee that had failed due to an accident in June . The association carried out exercises in front of Rügen in order to later hold maneuvers together with the fleet. These ended at the end of September, and the Crocodill was decommissioned on September 30, 1884.
It was not until ten years later, in October 1894, that the ship was put back into service. The Crocodill was assigned to the newly formed Panzerkanonenboots-Division Danzig and served as the division's master ship until May of the following year, when it was replaced by the Mücke . Further active activities followed from August to the beginning of October 1897 and from July to September 1900 for exercises.
Whereabouts
The Crocodill was removed from the list of warships on March 18, 1911 and then used as a target ship for two years . From 1913 to 1918 it was a forge workshop in Wilhelmshaven and was then scrapped.
Commanders
September 20 to October 20, 1880 | Captain Emil von Lyncker |
April 22nd to September 30th, 1884 | Lieutenant Ernst von Frantzius |
October 13, 1894 to May 5, 1895 | Corvette Captain Wittmer |
August 3 to October 1, 1897 | Lieutenant Richard Koch |
July 27 to September 24, 1900 | Lieutenant Siegfried von Jachmann |
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. 164 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. 19 .