SMS Brummer (1884)
.jpg) SMS Brummer
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The SMS Brummer was the lead ship of the eponymous ship class of the Imperial Navy , also still of the brake part. The armored cannon boat was originally built to defend the German North and Baltic Sea coasts, but over time it was used for various purposes.
Construction and first years of service
Just like its sister ship, the Brummer was built by AG Weser in Bremen . Work on the ship began in 1883, and the ship was launched on January 5, 1884. The ship was armed at the Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven . From October 10, 1884, it was ready for test drives, which lasted until February 21 of the following year, including around Skagen to Kiel .
On May 1, 1885, the Brummer was put into service as the driver's ship of the 2nd torpedo boat division and undertook exercises with his division in the western Baltic Sea as such . On July 28, the association joined the torpedo boats flotilla , which at the time was under the command of Corvette Captain Alfred von Tirpitz . The Brummer took part in the maneuvers of the flotilla until it was decommissioned on October 5 . The deployment in 1886 was the same as in the previous year and spanned the period from May 4th to October 9th.
Since special division boats were acquired for service as pilot ships, the Brummer was not used again until 1892 as a tender for the artillery training ship SMS Mars and for training on machine weapons . She also performed this task from February 14th in 1893, but was then used in the fishery protection in the German Bight from April 10th . In September this was followed by participation in the maneuvers of the fleet, which ended with the decommissioning in Wilhelmshaven on September 30th. The service the following year was similar. From March 20 to mid-August, the Brummer was again active as a fisheries protection ship, then went as a reconnaissance aircraft during the autumn maneuvers and was taken out of service again on September 29.
Service as a training ship
The Brummer was not put back into service until April 3, 1900 , now as a training ship for machine weapons. Before that, the ship was subjected to a minor renovation and adapted to its new task: the artillery equipment was changed, the chimney was raised by one meter and an additional platform was installed aft . Up until December 22, 1900, training trips were carried out in the German Bight and the Baltic Sea. The Brummer remained in service, but with a reduced crew until mid-February 1901.
In the following years the Brummer continued to serve as a training ship. The operational period in 1901 extended from February to November 15, 1902 from January 14 to November 28, 1903 from February 3 to November 15 and 1904 from mid-February to October 3. During the winter months the ship stayed in port with a reduced crew. On November 13, 1902, the Brummer collided with the artillery test ship SMS Freya off Schleimünde , but neither of the two ships was seriously damaged. The time as a training ship ended when it was decommissioned on January 10, 1905.
The Brummer was used for the last time from November 14, 1906 to March 22, 1907 as a replacement for the SMS Pfeil located in the shipyard . It served as a tender for the battle fleet . After completing this task, the ship was finally decommissioned on March 27, 1907.
Whereabouts
Two months after decommissioning, it was removed from the list of warships on May 27, 1907. The Brummer was henceforth in Kiel as Lagerhulk used. The ship was sold on July 2, 1921 for 165,000 marks and broken up in Wilhelmshaven in 1922.
Commanders
| October 10, 1884 to February 21, 1885 | unknown |
| May 1 to October 5, 1885 | Lieutenant Hasenclever |
| May 4 to October 9, 1886 | Lieutenant Carl Wodrig |
| March 2 to August 4, 1892 | Lieutenant Gerstung |
| February 14 to March 1893 | Lieutenant Gerstung |
| March 30th to September 30th 1893 | Lieutenant Carl Franz |
| March 20 to September 29, 1894 | Captain Gerhard Meyer |
| April 3 to December 22, 1900 | unknown |
| February to September 1901 | Captain Heinrich Trendtel |
| September 15th to November 15th 1901 | Lieutenant Dewitz |
| January 14th to September 1902 | Lieutenant Dewitz |
| September 28th to November 28th 1902 | Captain Kinel |
| February 3 to November 15, 1903 | Captain Kinel |
| February to September 1904 | Lieutenant Menger |
| September 1904 to January 10, 1905 | Lieutenant Mersmann |
| November 1906 | Oberleutnant zur See Robert Becker (deputy) |
| November 1906 to March 27, 1907 | Corvette Captain Meinardus |
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. 145-147 .