Natter (ship, 1884)
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The Natter was the penultimate ship of the Wespe class , a class of eleven armored cannon boats of the Imperial Navy , which was designed for the defense of the German North and Baltic Sea coasts.
Construction and service time
The snake was like her sister ships and from the Bremen shipyard AG Weser built. Work on the ship began in 1880, and it was launched on September 29 of the same year. The new building was given the name Natter , which means that it was reassigned just a few weeks after the old steam cannon boat Natter from 1860 was deleted.
The adder was first put into service on June 15, 1884 to take the place of the damaged bee in the armored cannon boat flotilla. Their crew was transferred to Wilhelmshaven for this purpose. The adder left the Jade on June 19 and reached Gdańsk Bay a week later , where the flotilla was staying. This was followed by participation in the association's exercises. On September 30, the ship was decommissioned in Kiel. On November 25, it was assigned to the Baltic Sea Naval Station.
Another brief deployment took place ten years later. The adder was assigned to the newly formed reserve division of the Baltic Sea and moved to Danzig . For this purpose, she was put into service from October 2nd to October 12th, 1894 and was then part of the division in Danzig.
On May 1, 1895, the Natter became the division's second parent ship and was put into service as such. Together with the first master ship, the Mücke , she took part in individual exercises and maneuvers of the fleet up to September 19, as well as in the following year from May 28 to September 23. Also in 1897 there was a deployment to formation and fleet maneuvers, but this time the entire division was involved, which also included Crocodill and Scorpion .
In the years 1898 and 1899, the Natter carried out exercises with the Mücke and after its replacement as the 1st parent ship of the division with the Scorpion off the East Prussian coast and took part in the fleet's autumn maneuvers. The ship was used for the last time in 1900. So it was on June 16, together with the Scorpion, at the opening of the Elbe-Trave Canal , which took place in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II , in Lübeck to officially represent the Navy. In addition, the Panzerkanonenboots division was last involved in the autumn maneuvers of the fleet. A reactivation of the division seemed necessary due to the dispatch of the Brandenburg -class ships to East Asia due to the Boxer Rebellion , as too few active ships remained in the home. On September 24th, however, the armored cannon boats were decommissioned and then remained in the reserve, including the adder .
Whereabouts
The adder was removed from the list of warships on March 18, 1911. Until 1924 it served under the name Stromquelle I in Wilhelmshaven, then in Kiel (again as an adder from 1928 ) as a floating power plant.
Commanders
| June 15 to September 30, 1884 | Lieutenant Wilm |
| October 2 to 12, 1894 | Corvette Captain Wittmer |
| May 1 to September 19, 1895 | Captain Maximilian von Spee |
| May 28 to September 23, 1896 | Captain Friedrich Musculus |
| April 1 to October 1, 1897 | Lieutenant Hecht |
| April 1 to July 1898 | Lieutenant Captain Gustav Kirchhoff |
| July to September 27, 1898 | Lieutenant Captain Otto Philipp |
| April 1 to May 1899 | Lieutnant Captain von Bentheim |
| May to July 1899 | Lieutenant Captain Maximilian Rogge |
| July to September 28, 1899 | unknown |
| April 3 to September 24, 1900 | Lieutenant Captain Maximilian Rogge |
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 6 : Ship biographies from Lützow to Prussia . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 140 f .