SMS Adler (1883)

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SMS Adler
SMS Adler (1883) .jpg
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type Gunboat
class Hawk- class
Shipyard Imperial shipyard , Kiel
Build number 7th
building-costs 881,000 marks
Launch November 3, 1883
Commissioning May 27, 1884
Whereabouts Stranded March 16, 1889
Ship dimensions and crew
length
61.8 m ( Lüa )
58.1 m ( KWL )
width 8.8 m
Draft Max. 4.02 m
displacement Construction: 880 t
Maximum: 1,040 t
 
crew 127 men
Machine system
machine 4 cylinder
3-cylinder compound machine
indicated
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		950 hp (699 kW)
Top
speed 		11.3 kn (21 km / h)
propeller 1 double-leaf Ø 2.8 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Schoonerbark
Number of masts 3
Sail area 847 m²
Armament

SMS Adler was a gunboat of the German Imperial Navy . It was the third, slightly enlarged, Habicht- class ship .

The launch took place on November 3, 1883 in the Kaiserliche Werft in Kiel . It was ordered under the household name Ersatz Comet .

history

The Adler was used in the Pacific as part of the East Asian Cruiser Squadron . On October 28, 1886, the warship hoisted the German flag on the Solomon Islands Bambatani and Choiseul as a symbol of the occupation by the German Empire.

Whereabouts

On March 13, 1889, Apia , Samoa , was hit by a cyclone . The German gunboats Olga , Eber and Adler were anchored and steamed in the harbor . The cyclone lasted for several days. The anchor did not stop on some of the ships and the eagle also began to drift on March 16, despite the anchor and despite full force. The eagle drifted sideways onto the beach, all but 20 of the crew were able to save themselves.

  • Wreck of the SMS Adler

  • Underwater ship by lake

  • Underwater ship from land

  • Rigging

  • Condition around 1909

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Nuhn: Kolonialpolitik und Marine , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2002, p. 61

literature

  • Entry "Kanonenboot / Kreuzer Adler", in: Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of marine history from 1815 to the present , 7 vols. In one volume, Ratingen o. J. (1984), vol. 1, p. 71f.

See also

Web links

Commons : SMS Adler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Image of the eagle at deutsche-schutzgebiete.de [1]