SMS Geier (1913)
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| Ship data | ||
| Ship name | Vulture ex. Saint Théodore | |
| Ship type | first auxiliary ship then auxiliary cruiser | |
| Ship class | Freighter (three-island type) | |
| Keel laying : | ? | |
| Launching ( ship christening ): | April 22, 1913 | |
| Commissioning: | December 14, 1916 as an auxiliary ship; December 23, 1916 as an auxiliary cruiser | |
| Builder: | W. Hamilton & Co. Ltd .; Glasgow (construction no.288) | |
| Shipping company: | British & Foreign Steam Ship Co. Ltd., Liverpool | |
| Crew (as auxiliary cruiser): | 2 officers , 46 men | |
| Whereabouts: | On 14 February 1917 the position 21 ° 1 ' S , 31 ° 49' W scuttled | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement: | 9,700 t |
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| Length over all: | 127.2 m | |
| Width: | 15.85 m | |
| Height (railing): | xm | |
| Registered tonnage: | 4992 GRT | |
| Depth in case of deployment displacement: | 6.4 m | |
| Machinery: | 1 standing three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine , two cylinder boilers, one propeller shaft | |
| Boiler pressure: | 12.6 atm | |
| Number of screws: | 1 x winged Ø xm | |
| Shaft speed: | x 1 / min | |
| Top speed: | 12.6 kn | |
| Construction speed: | 11.5 kn | |
| Drive power at design speed: | 1600 PSi | |
| Fuel supply: | x tons of coal | |
| Driving distance: | 30,000 nm at 8 kn | |
| Armament | ||
| Artillery: | two 5.2 cm SK L / 55 guns | |
| Max. Range d. Main armament: | about 7500 m | |
| Torpedo tubes: | no | |
| Mines: | no | |
| Infantry weapons: | Handguns | |
| Ammunition doping: | 300 rounds of 5.2 cm grenades | |
| Armor protection: | none | |
| commander | ||
| Lieutenant captain | Friedrich Wolf | |
The auxiliary cruiser SMS Geier, which was only used for a short time, was a pinch of the auxiliary cruiser SMS Möve , it was sunk itself.
The British Saint Théodore was applied as a pinch with a load of 7400 t of American coal from the Möve on December 12, 1916 at position 39 ° 30 ′ N , 17 ° 30 ′ W. Under the leadership of the Oberfähnrichs zur See Köhler, the ship was dispatched to a previously agreed meeting point. On December 23, 1916, the Möve and the Saint Théodore met again further south and the latter was converted into an auxiliary cruiser three days later. The ship was supplied with provisions and equipped with a radio system. Two 5.2 cm guns of the Möve were mounted on both sides of the loading hatch 2. From December 28, 1916, the ship was used as auxiliary cruiser SMS Geier under Friedrich Wolf as captain with a crew of 48 men from the Möve. On the same day, the captain of the Möve , Count zu Dohna-Schlodien , dispatched the vultures to conduct independent cruiser warfare. Since the ship was comparatively slow with a top speed of a good 12 knots, Lieutenant Wolf had to limit himself to chasing sailing ships .
The SMS Geier sank two ships in their relatively short period of operation. East of the Sankt-Peter-und-Sankt-Pauls-Felsen the Canadian three-masted schooner Jean with 215 GRT (built in 1905, shipping company JC Crosbie Liverpool / Nova Scotia , Captain Edward Burke) was landed on December 31, 1916 . The seven-man crew was taken over and the ship and its sugar cargo sunk. In addition, on January 3, 1917, the Norwegian stow (before 1917, 16 men crew) with 1,227 GRT including its cargo, consisting of whale oil and guano , was sunk. On January 17, 1917, the vulture met the seagull to share coal and information. The coal takeover proved too difficult due to the swell and was canceled after the Möve's hull was damaged . On January 22, 1917, the two ships separated again. But already on February 14, 1917, the Geier was disarmed by the crew of the Möve at about the heights of Ilha da Trindade with worn boiler and machinery and sunk itself. The crew returns to the seagull . This gave the Möve back its original crew of 235 men.
literature
- Robert Rosentreter: Typenkompass German warships - auxiliary cruisers and trade troublemakers 1914–1918. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-613-03774-8 , p. 71.
- John Walter: Pirates of the Emperor - German trade troublemakers 1914–1918 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01729-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Röhr: German marine chronicle. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1845-3 , p. 184.