SMS Grille (1857)

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SMS Grille
SMS Grille in its original condition before the later modifications
SMS Grille in its original condition before the later modifications
Ship data
flag PrussiaPrussia (war flag) Prussia German Empire
German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) 
Ship type Aviso
Shipyard A. Normand, Le Havre
building-costs 648,000 thalers
Launch September 9, 1857
Commissioning June 3, 1858
Whereabouts In 1920 Hamburg-Moorburg scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
56.86 m ( Lüa )
52.5 m ( KWL )
width 7.38 m
Draft Max. 3.2 m
displacement Construction: 350 t
Maximum: 491 t
 
crew 70 to 78 men
Machine system
machine 2 cylinder
boilers 1 2-cylinder steam engine
Machine
performance 		738 hp (543 kW)
Top
speed 		13.2 kn (24 km / h)
propeller 1 three-winged ∅ 2.74 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging More beautiful
Number of masts 3
Sail area 436 m²
Armament
  • 2 × 12 pounder guns

from 1879:

  • 1 × 12.5 cm L / 23 Rk (140 rounds)
  • 2 × 8.0 cm L / 23 Rk

from 1882 additionally:

  • 6 × 3.7 cm Rev (3,000 rounds)

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.

Grillehiddensee
Sea battle off Hiddensee on August 17, 1870. In the foreground the North German yacht SMS GRILLE

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.