SMS Delphin (1906)

SMS dolphin was a tender and artillery training boat of the German Imperial Navy and the Imperial Navy .

Construction and technical data

The ship ran on January 25, 1906 at the shipyard “Jos. L. Meyer " in Papenburg on the Ems (or in 1905 in Kieler Howaldtswerken ) from the stack . It was 40.8 m long and 8.3 m wide, had a draft of 3 m and displaced 445 t . The armament consisted of four 8.8 cm L / 35 rapid-fire cannons. The propulsion system, consisting of coal-fired steam boilers and compound machines , gave the ship a top speed of 12.5 knots . The crew numbered 51 men.

Imperial Navy

The Delphin was put into service on May 15, 1906 and assigned to the "Inspection of Ship Artillery". There it was used to supply the firing ships, to secure the firing area and to tow sea targets .

In 1908 the ship was slightly rebuilt at the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel . In 1910, the Delphin helped stranded fishing boats in Höruper Haff , a tributary of the Flensburg Fjord , and a sailing boat in Ærøsund . In 1909 and 1914 she was used for coastal exploration trips.

At the beginning of the First World War in August 1914, the Delphin was assigned to the Kiel harbor flotilla, together with the torpedo boats T 27 , T 58 , T 60 , T 63 and T 65 . From January 10, 1916, it then served as a tender at the ship artillery school in Sønderborg .

Interwar years and whereabouts

After the end of the war, the ship was first assigned to the I. Baltic Sea Minesweeping Flotilla and from July 1, 1919 to the Commander of the Baltic Sea Forces (BSO), but then decommissioned on November 20, 1919.

On February 12, 1921, the newly formed Reichsmarine put the ship back into service and used it as an artillery dealer at the Ship Artillery School (SAS) Kiel-Wik . It was finally decommissioned on November 15, 1925. (On the same day, the former M 108 minesweeper started its service as a rangefinder tender and disc tug for the ship artillery school; it was renamed Delphin on June 2, 1928. )

The old Delphin was sold in 1926 and resold to Peru after renovation in 1928 .

literature

Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (I), Marine-Arsenal Volume 30, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Eggolsheim-Bammersdorf, 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2

Hans-H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships , 10 volumes, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, ISBN 3-8364-9743-3

Individual evidence

↑ Dieter Jung: The ships of the Imperial Navy 1914-1918 and their whereabouts . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6247-7 . P. 52/53
↑ Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1907 gives only 9.5 knots.
↑ In 1914 the ship of the line Wettin , the large cruiser Prinz Adalbert , the small cruisers Augsburg , Stuttgart and Danzig , and the tenders Delphin , Hay , Drache and Fuchs were assigned to the inspection of the ship's artillery .

[1] Dieter Jung: The ships of the Imperial Navy 1914-1918 and their whereabouts . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6247-7 . P. 52/53

[2] Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1907 gives only 9.5 knots.

[3] In 1914 the ship of the line Wettin , the large cruiser Prinz Adalbert , the small cruisers Augsburg , Stuttgart and Danzig , and the tenders Delphin , Hay , Drache and Fuchs were assigned to the inspection of the ship's artillery .