SMS Hess
.PNG) The Hess on Lake Garda |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 1851 (Zurich) |
| Launch | 1852 (Riva del Garda) |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Removed from ship register | 1867 |
| Whereabouts | Canceled in 1890 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
360 tons |
| length |
45 m |
| width |
5.5 m |
| Draft |
1.5 m |
| crew |
55 |
| speed |
7.5 knots |
| Armament |
2 18-pounder cannons and 2 7-pounder howitzers (kuk Kriegsmarine); 2 12 pounders (Italy) |
The SMS Hess (from 1866 RN Principe Oddone , possibly also San Marco ?) Was a paddle steamer Aviso 2nd class of the Austro-Hungarian Navy , from 1866 of the Italian Navy and then a civil paddle steamer on Lake Garda .
construction
The ship was ordered in 1851 from the Escher Wyss shipyard in Zurich for the Gardaseedampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft and built in individual parts. The ship was designed for the transport of goods and passengers. With a steam engine of 100 hp and two side drive wheels, it reached a speed of 7.5 knots. In May 1852 the ship was transported in individual parts to Riva del Garda , where it was assembled and launched.
History of Austria
In 1852 the company sold the unfinished ship to the Austrian government of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto for 49,800 guilders . As a result, the SMS Hess, named after General Heinrich von Heß , Chief of Staff 1848–1849, armed with two 18-pounder cannons and two 7-pounder cannons of the Lake Garda flotilla of the Austro-Hungarian Navy .
In June 1859, the Hess formed the Lake Garda flotilla with the two other armed Austrian steamers SMS Benaco and SMS Franz Joseph as well as some gunboats and took part in the fighting during the war with Piedmont and France. In the absence of ships from these countries on the sea, they supported the land operations. The SMS Benaco was sunk by a Piedmontese battery in Salò on June 20, 1859 .
At the end of the fighting, the Lombard bank was lost to Piedmont.
In June 1866, at the beginning of the war with Italy , the Austrian flotilla operated from the naval base in Torri del Benaco and consisted of the Franz Joseph , the Hess and nine gunboats and eleven smaller boats with a total of 62 cannons and 10 machine guns , mainly only on the Italian side the upscale paddle steamer Benaco stood in the way. Therefore the Austrians had the command of the sea. On 1 July 1866 the shelled Hess with gunboats to the station of Desenzano and the Franz Joseph the port of the village.
On July 2, 1866, the Franz Joseph , the Hess and two gunboats shot at Gargnano and had a battle with a land battery of the 2nd Reggimento Volontari Italiani there .
On July 10th, the shore road in Bogliaco was bombarded with the Italians' land battery there. Again on 19 and 20 July shelled the Franz Joseph , the Hess and the gunboats Speiteufel , tomboy and sniper Gargnano and captured the steamer Benaco , they to Peschiera del Garda dragged, and she sank the steamer Poeta .
History Italy
After the end of the war, the Venetian side of the lake was also lost and the Lake Garda flotilla was sold to Italy for 425,000 francs. The Hess was sold for 41,500 Swiss francs on October 18, 1866. There are published decrees from 1866, according to which not Hess , as sometimes to read, but Franz Joseph in Principe Oddone should be renamed. According to this decree, the name San Marco was intended for the Hess . Gogg, however, specifically names the Hess as the renamed ship.
The ships sold were used for civil shipping from 1867. By 1880 all gunboats that Escher Wyss had built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were decommissioned.
literature
- Karl Gogg: Austria's Navy 1848-1918. 2nd improved edition, Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg / Stuttgart, ISBN 3-7023-0042-2 .
- Francesco Ogliari: La navigazione sui laghi italiani - Lago di Garda. Cavallotti, 1987.
Web links
- Ministero della difesa: Marina Militare, Princiope Oddone . (accessed on July 7, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl Gogg: Österreichs Kriegsmarine 1848-1918. P.56; for all historical data.
- ^ Karl Gogg: Austria's Navy 1848-1918. P. 32; for all technical data.
- ↑ a b c Jürg Meister, built in Zurich - sunk abroad , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 81/1976, 8./9. April 1978, p. 76 f. (PDF; 15.6 MB)
- ↑ Collezione celerifera delle legge, decreti, istruzioni e circolari , Stamperia reale, 1867, p. 130 . Also this and this source (PDF; 15.6 MB) called the Franz Joseph as the bearer of the name Principe Oddone from the 1866th