Grand Duke of Oldenburg (ship, 1849)

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Grand Duke of Oldenburg
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Ship data
flag German ConfederationGerman Confederation (war flag) German Confederation United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom (trade flag) 
other ship names
  • Inca
  • Belgium
Ship type Paddle steamer
Shipyard William Patterson, Bristol
building-costs 110,000 thalers
Launch 1848
Commissioning Spring 1849
Whereabouts From 1877 Hulk exhausted
Ship dimensions and crew
length
50.29 m ( Lüa )
44.4 m ( KWL )
width 8.08 m
over wheel arches: 14.8 m
Draft Max. 3.2 m
displacement 415  t
measurement 600 GRT
 
crew 100 men
Machine system
machine 4 suitcase boiler
2 1-cyl steam engines
Machine
performance
920 hp (677 kW)
Top
speed
9 kn (17 km / h)
propeller 2 side wheels ∅ 5.49 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Schoonerbrigg
Number of masts 2
Armament

The Grand Duke of Oldenburg was a wheeled corvette of the Imperial Fleet from 1849 to 1852.

origin

Together with the Grand Duke of Oldenburg , the two ships of similar type, Frankfurt and Der Königliche Ernst August, were purchased. The latter was slightly larger than the Grand Duke of Oldenburg

drive

The two paddle wheels were moved by two horizontally installed single-cylinder expansion machines from Miller & Ravenshill, London . The steam required for this was generated in four suitcase boilers, two of which were located in front of and behind the machines in the 20.57 m long and unseparated engine room. The combined power of both machines was given as 230 nominal horsepower; that corresponded to 920 PSi .

Armament

The two 68-pounder bomb cannons with which the ship was to be equipped were manufactured by the British Arsenal Woolwich. The transfer trip took place without armament and the bomb cannons were installed by the arsenal of the Seezeugmeisterei in Geestemünde .

Service in the imperial fleet

Like the Frankfurt (code name Cacique ) and the Der Königliche Ernst August (code name Cora ), the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was built by the Patterson company in Bristol . She only carried the name Inca as a cover name for the crossing to Germany. The godfather of the christening in Geestemünde was the Grand Duke of Oldenburg , Paul Friedrich August (1783-1853, reign 1829-1853), who had a great interest in building and expanding the imperial fleet and was planning a large dry dock for the imperial fleet in Brake but then because of the liquidation of the Reichsflotte, which was supposed to take place in Brake of all places, no more happened.

In the short phase of the German imperial fleet, the corvette only took part in routine service. Due to the hasty construction, the wooden hull was quickly attacked by rot. The furnishings were quite luxurious, at least as far as the officers' cabins were concerned, which were lined with finely polished mahogany and jacaranda wood . The team logis, on the other hand, consisted of a simple hall in which the teams slept in hammocks . It is unclear whether the corvette ever reached its full crew strength. In the autumn of 1850 she seems to have been traveling to the North Sea with other ships in the fleet when two inspectors from Frankfurt a. M. inspected the fleet. Otherwise she seems to have been moored in Brake and Bremerhaven , manned by a watch command .

Later use

Wheel corvette GRAND DUKE OF OLDENBURG of the imperial fleet around 1850

As part of the dissolution of the imperial fleet, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was auctioned on December 12, 1852 in Brake by the Oldenburg State Councilor Laurenz Hannibal Fischer (1784–1867) and sold to the General Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., London, according to Fischer's original plan to sell the units at least to the two great powers Austria and Prussia had failed. Fischer was later wrongly characterized as a “fleet seller”. In March 1853 the former corvette was registered as Belgium and was then active in European voyages. In July 1875 it was launched in London, dismantled into the Hulk in 1877 and set up as a floating workshop in February 1879. Her further fate is unknown.

literature

  • L. Arenhold: 50 years ago! The German Reichsflotte 1848–1852 in twelve pictures , Berlin 1906, reprint with an introduction by Uwe Greve Berlin 1995.
  • Hans Friedl: Paul Friedrich August . In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 553f.
  • Hans Friedl: Laurenz Martin Hannibal Fischer . In: Biographisches Handbuch , pp. 189f.
  • 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. 108 f .
  • Walther Hubatsch (ed.): The first German fleet 1848-1853 , Herford / Bonn 1981.
  • Arnold Kludas : The warships of the German Confederation 1848 to 1852 . In: Hubatsch, The First German Fleet , pp. 51–60.

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