SMS Habicht (1860)

**hawk**
	The identical fox
Ship data
flag	Prussia North German Confederation German Empire; ;
Ship type	Gunboat
class	Hunter- class
Shipyard	Keier and Devrient , Danzig
building-costs	48,700 thalers
Launch	1860
Commissioning	February 21, 1864
Removal from the ship register	November 27, 1877
Whereabouts	Used up as a cream
Ship dimensions and crew
length	41.2 m ( Lüa ) 38.0 m ( KWL )
width	6.69 m
Draft	Max. 2.2 m
displacement	Construction: 237 t; Maximum: 283 t
crew	40 men
Machine system
machine	4 transversely stationary suitcase boiler; 2 horizontal 1-cyl steam engines; 1 Rowing
Machine ; performance	220 hp (162 kW)
Top ; speed	9.0 kn (17 km / h)
propeller	1 three-leaf, ø 1.88 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	More beautiful
Number of masts	3
Sail area	300 m²
Armament
	1 × pulled 24 pounder (= 15 cm); 2 × pulled 12 pounders (= 12 cm);

The SMS Habicht was a Jäger class ship , a class of fifteen steam cannon boats, 2nd class of the Royal Prussian Navy , the Navy of the North German Confederation and the Imperial Navy .

Construction and service time

The hawk was commissioned from the Keier and Devrient shipyard in Danzig in mid-1859 and was launched in the spring of 1860. An exact date of the launch is not known. After completion, the ship was transferred to the base of the gunboats on the Dänholm and slipped on there .

The Habicht was first used during the German-Danish War . She was put into service on February 21, 1864 and the III. Flotilla Division assigned. On July 3, the gunboat was involved in a battle against Danish ships off Hiddensee and was finally decommissioned on Dänholm at the beginning of October.

On April 3, 1867, the Habicht was put into service as the second station tender for Kiel and took over this task until the end of November of that year. On September 4th it was available to visitors to the XIV Evangelical Church Congress for a tour. In 1868 the ship was initially used as a station tender again, but had to be temporarily taken out of service on May 8, as the Prussian state parliament cut the navy's financial resources. From July 11th, the Habicht could be used again and served the artillery training ship Thetis as a tender until the end of November.

After an engine failure in 1869 prevented the ship from being used, it was put into service on July 20, 1870 in the course of mobilization after the French declaration of war and moved to Cuxhaven through the Eider Canal . There the hawk took over guard duty on the Elbe estuary during the war , but did not get into combat. After the end of the war, the ship had to monitor the withdrawal of French prisoners of war on the Lower Elbe and was decommissioned on April 21, 1871 in Wilhelmshaven .

The Habicht was modernized in 1872, including the complete removal of the rigging, only the main mast remained on board as a signal mast. The armament was also changed and a ring cannon 15 cm L / 22 was taken on board instead of the previous guns . However, the ship was not used again until 1877 when the Habicht was used as a tender for the artillery training ship Renown .

Whereabouts

The Habicht was removed from the list of warships on November 27, 1877 and used up as a prahm in Wilhelmshaven . The gunboat Hay , launched in 1881, was built as a replacement .

Commanders

Fall 1860	Lieutenant II. Class Ulffers
February 21 to April 1864	Second Class Lieutenant / Lieutenant Paul von Reibnitz
April to September 1864	Lieutenant to the Sea Karl von Eisendecher
September to October 1864	Lieutenant Captain Eduard Arendt
April 3 to November 30, 1867	Lieutenant of the Sea of Lindequist
April 1 to May 8, 1868	Lieutenant at sea Graf von Pfeil
July 11 to November 28, 1868	Lieutenant at sea Graf von Pfeil
July 20 to November 1870	Lieutenant to the Sea Georgi
November 1870 to April 21, 1871	Lieutenant to the Sea Braunschweig
March 29 to August 31, 1877	unknown

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. 160 f .
Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 4 : Ship biographies from Greif to Kaiser . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 44 f .

Footnotes

↑ The designation of the lower officer ranks was set or changed in the years 1849, 1854 and 1864. On January 1, 1900, the names Fähnrich zur See, Leutnant zur See, Oberleutnant zur See and Kapitänleutnant, which are still in use today, were introduced.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.

[1] The designation of the lower officer ranks was set or changed in the years 1849, 1854 and 1864. On January 1, 1900, the names Fähnrich zur See, Leutnant zur See, Oberleutnant zur See and Kapitänleutnant, which are still in use today, were introduced.

[OLzS-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.