SMS brake (1884)

SMS *brake*
	The type ship Brummer
Ship data
flag	German Empire
Ship type	Armored gunboat
class	Brummer class
Shipyard	AG Weser , Bremen
Build number	53
Launch	March 29, 1884
Commissioning	December 22, 1884
Removal from the ship register	March 10, 1903
Whereabouts	Used up as a cream
Ship dimensions and crew
length	64.8 m ( Lüa ) 62.6 m ( KWL )
width	8.5 m
Draft	Max. 4.77 m
displacement	Construction: 867 t,; maximum: 929 t
crew	65 to 78 men
Machine system
machine	2 steam locomotive boilers; 2 inclined 2-cylinder compound engines; 1 rudder
Machine ; performance	2,081 hp (1,531 kW)
Top ; speed	15.2 kn (28 km / h)
propeller	1, four-leaf, ∅ 3.6 m
Armament
	1 × 21 cm L / 30 Rk (50 shots); 1 × 8.7 cm L / 24 Rk (75 shots); 2 × 3.7 cm Rev ; 1 torpedo tube ∅ 35 cm (in the bow, under water, 3 shots);
Armor
	Upper deck: 25-40 mm on 200 mm teak ;

The SMS Bremse was the second ship of the Brummer class of the Imperial Navy , to which only the type ship Brummer belonged. The armored cannon boat was built to defend the German North and Baltic Sea coasts, but was mainly used for fisheries protection.

Construction and service time

Just like its sister ship, the brake was built by Bremer Werft AG Weser . Work began in 1883, and the launch took place on March 29, 1884. From December 22, 1884 to January 23, 1885, the test drives took place. The ship was then in reserve for six years.

The brake was not put back into service until March 17, 1891 to serve as a fisheries protection ship in the German Bight . This activity was interrupted from August 27th to September 18th by participating in the maneuvers of the fleet. For this purpose, the ship went around Skagen to Kiel and then returned to Wilhelmshaven . In the fall, the part Dogger Bank and the southeast coast of England to take care of area, so the visiting brake with Hull (October 12 to 17) and Harwich (October 24 to 30) and two English port cities. This mission ended on November 19, 1891.

On March 15, 1892, the brake was put back into service and used again for fisheries protection. At the beginning of June she went back to Kiel to participate in the naval parade on the occasion of the visit of Tsar Alexander III. to participate. On June 19, it resumed fishery protection activities. From August 16, she took part in the fleet's maneuvers in the western Baltic Sea and was decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven on September 30.

More than nine years passed before the next commissioning. On April 2, 1902, the brake was activated again for the fishery protection, which it provided together with the Aviso SMS Zieten . During this mission, which was only interrupted from May 7th to 13th for a trip to Kiel, the ship called at several German and British ports. On August 29, 1902, it was finally decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven.

Whereabouts

On March 10, 1903, the brake was removed from the list of warships and its hull was used as inventory or heating oil cream . In 1910 it was sold to Düsseldorf for 52,000 marks , where it was used up as a cream.

Commanders

December 22, 1884 to January 23, 1885	unknown
March 17 to November 19, 1891	Corvette Captain Gottlieb Becker
March 15 to September 30, 1892	Corvette Captain Hans Meyer
April 2 to August 29, 1902	Lieutenant Oskar Runge

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. 167 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. 130 f .