Luise (ship, 1872)
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The Luise was a smooth-deck corvette of the Imperial Navy and the second ship of the Ariadne class . The corvette , built from 1871 to 1874, was in service until 1895.
history
construction
The Imperial Shipyard Danzig laid the keel for a new corvette in June 1871 . The new building was launched on 16 December 1872 with no special celebrations launched and was named Luise after the Grand Duchess of Baden . The name had been published some time before. The further expansion of the corvette dragged on until the middle of 1874. The ship was intended primarily for use in East Asia and was accordingly given a spacious interior design for the time.
commitment
The Luise was put into service for the first time on June 4, 1874 to carry out test drives. These were completed in mid-July and the ship was transferred to Wilhelmshaven . Actually, it should have been used directly abroad, but the insufficient number of available officers prevented the planned overseas service. Instead, the corvette was taken out of service on August 26th.
After she had been in service for a short time at the beginning of 1875, the Luise was reactivated on October 11, 1875 and equipped for her first trip abroad. The ship left Wilhelmshaven on October 26th and headed for Rio de Janeiro first . The journey continued through the South Atlantic and the Indic to Melbourne , which Luise reached on April 1, 1876. A fever epidemic on board made it necessary to stay in the Australian port for two weeks . Then the corvette set course for the island of Jolo . The local population of the place of the same name had refused to pay a German merchant for the goods he had delivered, whereupon he turned to the Foreign Office with a request for help . The Luise's crew should now collect the outstanding debts. She found the place destroyed. The natives had revolted against the Spanish administration, whereupon this had burned Jolo and the natives withdrew into the interior of the island. The Luise then continued to Hong Kong , where on July 1, 1876, she met the German squadron stationed in East Asia and replaced her sister ship Ariadne . Luise left Hong Kong on July 13 and drove to Tschifu , as the German envoy in Beijing feared unrest there due to British demands for a free port . The corvette remained in Tschifu until October 1, temporarily supported by the Vineta . Then she called at various Chinese ports. At the end of January 1877 Luise arrived in Shanghai , where she supervised the imports of the foreign settlements for a while. From there, the ship sailed the Yangtze to Wuhu , where it carried out measurements . After completing this work, the corvette went to Nagasaki for overhaul. During that rammed the British battleship Audacious the Luise in a squall . The jib boom and three dinghies of the German corvette were destroyed. Luise received the order to return home while she was still in Nagasaki . She set course for her home waters on May 7, 1877 and reached Wilhelmshaven on September 1. Twelve days later, the ship's first extended period of service ended.
In 1878 the Luise lay at the shipyard for overhaul, with her rigging being changed to that of a barque . As a result, your sail area was reduced from a total of 1,582 to 1,049 m². The corvette came back into service on November 20, 1878 under the command of Corvette Captain Rudolph Schering and left Wilhelmshaven on December 3 in the direction of East Asia. In contrast to the first voyage, the ship went through the Suez Canal . From January 28, 1879, Luise took scientific measurements in the deep sea at twelve different points between Aden and Bombay . The temperature and salinity of the water were examined. These measurements were related to the expeditions of the British Challenger and the German Gazelle that took place between 1872 and 1876 . Following this work, the Luise first called at Bombay and then as the first German warship to call Calcutta . The voyage continued to Hong Kong, where the corvette replaced her sister ship Freya in East Asia in early May and met Leipzig , who was on her way home, in mid-May . Korvettenkapitän Schering took over the function of senior officer in East Asia from Captain Karl Paschen , the commander of the Leipzig , and from then on commanded the German ships stationed in East Asia. The Luise called at various Japanese ports from June 1879 , where she was partly accompanied by Prince Adalbert . In August the ship carried out a total of ten deep-sea soundings in the Korea Strait .
In March and April 1880 the Luise lay in front of Shanghai together with the gunboats Cyclop and Wolf , as unrest in the Chinese coastal area made this necessary. On April 24, the corvette was able to leave Shanghai for Hong Kong and to comply with the order received on April 1 to return home. From Hong Kong, the journey continued on July 3 to Madagascar , where Corvette Captain Schering and five of his officers met with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Madagascar in Tamatave on August 16 . The reason for this visit was the failure of the kingdom to recognize the newly appointed German consul . This was the result of xenophobic attitudes sparked by French demands in Madagascar. An emerging severe storm prevented further negotiations. The Luise had Tamatave leave already on the following day, the storm at sea abzuwettern . Since their coal supply was running out, Schering was forced to continue the journey. The Luise first went to Simon's Town to take over coal and subsequently to other ports. The ship reached Wilhelmshaven on November 9, 1880 and was decommissioned on November 20, exactly two years later.
In 1881 the Luise was converted into a training ship for ship boys. As such, the ship entered service on April 15, 1881. From May 18 to mid-June Luise was in the Baltic Sea along the German coast. The ship's first major overseas training voyage began on June 19, 1881. She ran into the east coast of South and North America between Georgetown and Halifax . After her return to Kiel on September 4, 1882, the Luise was called in to the maneuvers of the training squadron taking place in the Baltic Sea at that time . The command of the training squadron was Rear Admiral Wilhelm von Wickede , for whom the Friedrich Carl served as the flagship . After completing the maneuvers, the Luise was decommissioned on September 25, 1882.
In the following year, the ship briefly came into service from the end of March to the beginning of April to be transferred from Kiel to Danzig. The local Imperial Shipyard then subjected the ship to a major overhaul by February 1885. Operational again, the Luise was put back into service on February 24, 1885 and initially undertook several test drives from Kiel. The ship then resumed the training of cabin boys. From May 11th, there was a shorter voyage in the Baltic Sea, which was followed by the second overseas training voyage from June 1st, as in 1881/82 to the American east coast. On the way back, Luise ran via Queenstown to Cowes , where she took part in a British naval parade. The ship left Cowes on August 10 and ran via Gravesend and Leith to Wilhelmshaven, which she reached on September 10, 1886. This trip was immediately followed by another to Duala , where Luise was supposed to bring the teams for the gunboats Cyclop and Habicht . The navy wanted to save the costs that would have been incurred for the charter of a merchant ship . Luise was back from this trip on January 26, 1887 in Wilhelmshaven. It ran to Kiel until February 10th. There the crew partly disembarked.
After almost two months, on April 5, 1887, the crew was brought back to normal and the Luise resumed her service as a training ship. Trips in the North and Baltic Seas followed. The ship was present at the laying of the foundation stone of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal on June 3rd. The Luise has been asked and on September 15 in Kiel decommissioned first the reserve allocated. But just one month later, on October 15, the corvette came back into service and took on the task of bringing a new crew for the German gunboats to West Africa and their previous crews back home. The voyage began in Kiel on October 24th and reached Duala on December 17th. Ten days later, Luise left the port again and started her return journey, which ended on February 18, 1888 in Kiel. The corvette was decommissioned on February 20 and reassigned to the reserve for a short time. On April 6th, however, the Luise came back into service as a ship boy training ship. She went on a training trip in the Baltic Sea and decommissioned on September 29th.
In 1889 the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel gave the Luise an overhaul, which is why the ship was not used that year. In the summer months of the two following years, however, the corvette was in service as a training ship. In both years she also took part in the fleet's autumn maneuvers. From 1892 the decommissioned Luise was counted among the "ships for special purposes", later called "harbor ships". From November 1, 1894, the ship was used again. Until April 16, 1895, the Luise served as a torpedo test ship, mainly in the Kiel Fjord .
Whereabouts
The Luise was struck off the list of warships on December 19, 1896. The following year the Navy sold the ship for 54,187 marks to Hamburg, where it was scrapped.
Commanders
| June 4 to July 1874 | Corvette Captain Arendt |
| July to August 26, 1874 | Corvette Captain Rodenacker |
| January 1st to February 3rd 1875 | Captain Adolf Mensing |
| October 11, 1875 to September 13, 1877 | Corvette Captain Ditmar |
| November 20, 1878 to November 20, 1880 | Corvette Captain Rudolf Schering |
| April 15, 1881 to September 25, 1882 | Corvette Captain Gustav stamp |
| March 20 to April 11, 1883 | Corvette Captain von Gloeden |
| February 24, 1885 to September 1886 | Corvette Captain Count von Haugwitz |
| September 1886 to February 1887 | Corvette Captain Franz Junge |
| April to September 15, 1887 | Corvette Captain Wilhelm Büchsel |
| October 15, 1887 to February 20, 1888 | Corvette Captain Claussen von Finck |
| April 6 to September 29, 1888 | Corvette Captain Claussen von Finck |
| April 9 to September 30, 1890 | Corvette captain Freiherr von Erhardt |
| April 7th to September 30th, 1891 | Corvette Captain Felix Stubenrauch |
| November 1, 1894 to April 16, 1895 | Sea captain Carl Wodrig |
literature
- Gardiner, Robert (Ed.): Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5 , pp. 251 .
- 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. 114 f .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 6 : Ship biographies from Lützow to Prussia . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 26–29 (Approved licensed edition by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 6, p. 27.
- ^ The German upper deck corvette Ariadne . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 1476 . JJ Weber, Leipzig October 14, 1871, p. 290 ( online version of the BSB ).
- ^ The new smooth-deck corvette Luise . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 1562 . JJ Weber, Leipzig June 7, 1873, p. 430 ( online version of the BSB ).
- ↑ a b c Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz, Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe , Volume 6, p. 26.
- ↑ a b Gröner, The German Warships , Volume 6, p. 115.
- ↑ a b c d e f Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 6, p. 28.
- ↑ Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 3 : Ship biographies from the Elbe to Graudenz . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 113 (Licensed Edition, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
- ↑ a b Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 6, p. 29.
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