SMS Hay (1881)

SMS Hay was a gunboat built, but only two years after its entry into service as artillery Tender employed steam sailing ship of the Imperial Navy .

The ship was on 28 September 1881 as single ship in the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack . At 34 m long, 6.4 m wide and 2.81 m draft , it displaced 267 tons . A standing 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine with 160 HP enabled a speed of about 10 knots . The crew numbered about 40 men. The armament consisted of four 8.8 cm ring cannons and four 3.7 cm ring cannons, but seems to have been changed / modernized several times over the years; so were z. B. in 1891 two 8,8-cm quick-loading cannons installed.

The ship entered service on June 15, 1882. From 1884 it served the artillery training ship Mars as a tender, mainly for towing sea ​​targets , but was occasionally also used as an artillery training ship. On September 28, 1906, the Hay was deleted from the list of warships and then used as a disc cream in Kiel - Friedrichsort . In 1919 the ship was scrapped.

Web links

• http://www.kaiserliche-marine.de/
• http://www.unterseeboot-hai.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=104

literature

• Hans-H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships , 10 volumes, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, ISBN 3-8364-9743-3
• Dieter Jung: The ships of the Imperial Navy 1914–1918 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6247-7 .