SMS Grille (1857)
SMS Grille in its original condition before the later modifications
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SMS Grille was aship of the Prussian Navy called Aviso , which was built after the revolution of 1848/1849 by the Prussian Prince Adalbert , and the later Imperial Navy . The Grille was a royal yacht that was available to the king and crown prince for private use in times of peace. She was a sailing ship, but also had a small steam engine. Since German shipyards had little experience in warship building, the Grille was launched at the French shipyard Chantier Augustin Normand in Le Havre . In 1857 the ship was launched , and in 1858 it was put into service.
Calls
In the German-Danish war was Grille 1864, the flagship of the Prince Adalbert and III. Flotilla Division. With this, the Aviso took part in a battle with Danish ships near Hiddensee on July 3 and subsequently in other battles.
During the Franco-Prussian War , the Grille served as the flagship of the Flotilla Division under Corvette Captain Count Franz von Waldersee (1835–1903) and took part in the naval battle off Hiddensee on August 17, 1870 . After that it was rebuilt and modernized several times. She served as a training ship from 1892 and was temporarily used as an admiralty yacht. In 1915 she was used as a tender for the Freya school ship .
It was scrapped in Hamburg in 1920 . The Grille thus holds the record for the longest service life of a warship in a German Navy.
construction
The ship was 57 meters long, rigged as a three- masted schooner , and had a simple English expansion steam engine that gave it a top speed of 13 knots.
The frames were made of oak , the outer cladding of mahogany wood . The primary armament consisted of two rifled 12-pound guns, one behind the mizzen mast and the other between the main and foremast . They were usually not visible because they were set up so that they did not protrude beyond the bulwark . The bulwark had to be removed for a battle.
literature
- The 1870 campaign in the North and Baltic Seas. From the French by René de Pont-Jest. With corrections and additions by a German naval officer. Along with a map of the Jade, Weser and Elbe estuaries , Bremen (JG Heyse) 1871. Digitized version of the Munich State Library.
- Mirko Graetz: Prince Adalbert's forgotten fleet. The North German Federal Navy 1867–1871. Lulu Enterprises Inc., Morrisville, NC (USA), 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-2509-6 , p. 71.
- Hans Jürgen Hansen: The ships of the German fleets 1848-1945 , Urbis Verlag, 1973 ( ISBN 3-924896-06-2 ).
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . Volume 4: Historical overview. Ship biographies from Greif to Kaiser . Koehler's publishing house, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0235-X . Licensed edition Mundus, Essen 1997, pp. 24–30.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirko Graetz: Prince Adalbert's forgotten fleet. The North German Federal Navy 1867–1871. Lulu Enterprises Inc., Morrisville, NC (USA), 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-2509-6 , p. 71.
- ↑ Illustrirte Zeitung from June 11, 1864. In: Clas Broder Hansen: Germany becomes sea power, building the Imperial Navy 1867-1880 . Urbes Verlag, ISBN 3-924896-23-2 , p. 11.