Crocodill (ship, 1880)

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Crocodill
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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type Armored gunboat
class Wasp- class
Shipyard AG Weser , Bremen
Build number 40
building-costs 1,145,000 marks
Launch September 13, 1879
Commissioning September 20, 1880
Removal from the ship register March 18, 1911
Whereabouts Wrecked after 1918
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 		786 hp (578 kW)
Top
speed 		11.2 kn (21 km / h)
propeller 2 four-leaf ⌀ 2.5 m
Armament

from 1883 additionally:

  • 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 35 cm (in the bow, under water, 2 shots)

from 1894 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 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 .