SMS Hertha (ship, 1864)
 The type ship SMS Arcona
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SMS Hertha was a covered corvette of the Prussian Navy , the Navy of the North German Confederation and later the Imperial Navy . Together with her sister ship Vineta , she belonged to the second construction lot of the Arcona class , which had an extended hull. The Arcona class was the first class of warships to be built in shipyards in Prussia since the Kurbrandenburg Navy .
Due to financial problems and problems with the delivery of construction timber, the construction of the Hertha was initially delayed . The launch took place on October 1st, 1864 at the Royal Shipyard in Gdansk . After commissioning in 1865, the corvette was first sent to Greece to represent Prussia at the coronation celebrations of the new Greek King George I.
In 1869 the Hertha was to strengthen the Medusa as another station ship in East Asia . From then on, Heinrich Köhler was in command of the boat until he was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1873 . On the way there, the corvette took part in the opening of the Suez Canal and was one of the first ships to pass the Canal. During the Franco-Prussian War , the Hertha stayed as a stationary in Japan and was detained together with the Medusa in the port of Yokohama by superior French warships. In 1872 she returned from Asia and was then used as a training ship for midshipmen, making several trips abroad, including overseas. The ship was under the command of Captain Eduard von Knorr from March 1874 to June 1876 part of the East Asia Squadron. In the years 1880 to 1882 an extensive training voyage was undertaken, which took the ship to East Asia (June 1881 to March 1882), the South Seas and Africa. So she stayed in Yokohama in June 1881. In June 1882 she was visiting Sultan Barghasch ibn Said in front of Zanzibar and then traveled on to Dahomey, where negotiations with the Kingdom of Dahomey in favor of German trade interests were conducted.
In 1884, the Hertha was removed from the register of warships, then used as the Hulk . In 1902 it was scrapped.
The Hertha had of signing the treaty of friendship between Germany and Tonga on November 1, 1876 at the port of Nuku'alofa on Tongatapu .
literature
- 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 , pp. 65-66.
- Military weekly paper, Volume 57, 1872, p.95 SMS Herta during the Franco-Prussian War in East Asia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cartographic News . Velhagen & Klasing, 1978, ISBN 978-3-11-007032-3 , p. 11 ( google.de [accessed on November 1, 2019]).
- ↑ 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. 37
- ↑ There are other information on the stated date of the return journey (source: Hermann Mückler , Alte Photographien . In the text "Photographien von Gustav Adolph Riemer", information on dates is given (accessed December 4, 2016)).
- ^ Schlegel - Berliner Auktionshaus für Philatelie GmbH (Ed.): Special catalog “Imperial Navy Ship Mail and Navy Mail Before World War I” , self-published, Berlin, October 2010, pages 31, 40 and 42.
- ^ Georg Wislicenus : Germany's sea power: together with an overview of the history of seafaring of all peoples , Reprint-Verlag-Leipzig, reprint of the edition from 1896, pages 75-77