SMS Hay (1860)

Hay

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Ship data flag  Prussia North German Confederation German Empire     Ship type Gunboat class Hunter- class Shipyard JW Klawitter , Danzig building-costs 49,000 thalers Launch February 14, 1860 Commissioning Fall 1860 Removal from the ship register September 7, 1880 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)

SMS Hay 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 later the Imperial Navy .

Construction and service time

The Hay was in the summer of 1859 at the Gdansk shipyard JW Klawitter commissioned and ran, as well as the equally built there Fuchs , on 14 February 1860 of the stack . A small accident occurred due to a broken stopper chain, but the ship was not significantly damaged. After completion, in the autumn of 1860, an exact date cannot be determined, the transfer to the gunboat base on Dänholm , where the ship was slipped on and mothballed.

It was not until the outbreak of the German-Danish War that the Hay was put back into service . In mid-February 1864, the ship joined the 1st  Flotilla Division and took part in the naval battle against Danish warships at Jasmund on March 17th . The Hay had to be towed by her sister ship Sperber because her machinery was damaged . After the end of the war, the gunboat was decommissioned in October and again preserved on the Dänholm.

Although the Hay was intended to be activated in the event of war, this was not carried out when the war against Austria broke out. The ship was not put back into service until July 1, 1869, to be used as a station tender in Kiel until November 20 .

On July 18, 1870, the Hay was made ready for use again as part of the general mobilization. Together with the Schwalbe and the first class gunboat Cyclop , she started the march into the North Sea on July 24th , which led around Jutland . During the entire Franco-German War, the ship remained in the North Sea, where it secured the mouth of the Weser . On April 4, 1871, the Hay was moved from Wilhelmshaven through the Eider Canal to Kiel, where it arrived eight days later. She was assigned to the artillery training ship Renown as a tender and remained in service in this function and as a station tender until July 4, 1872.

As early as July 22nd, 1872, the Hay was reactivated for a short time to serve as a replacement for the swallow in target practice. Finally, on October 7th, the ship was decommissioned and subsequently overhauled. Among other things, the armament was expanded and replaced by a 15 cm  L / 22 ring cannon . However, there was no further use.

Whereabouts

The Hay was removed from the list of warships on September 7, 1880. Then it was as Invent arias barge up.

Commanders

Fall 1860	Leutnant zur See 1st class Growing
February 11 to March 1864	Lieutenant to the sea 2nd class Adolph Butterlin
March to October 1864	Second Class Lieutenant / Lieutenant Max Jung
July 1 to November 20, 1869	Lieutenant to the sea Friedrich Albrecht
July 18, 1870 to July 4, 1872	Lieutenant to the Sea Iwan Oldekop
July 22 to August 5, 1872	Lieutenant for the Sea Richard Aschenborn
September to October 1872	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. 97 f .

Footnotes

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.
2. ↑ The rank corresponds to a lieutenant commander.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.