SMS hyena (1860)

hyena

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 April 1860 Commissioning February 10, 1864 Removal from the ship register July 17, 1873 Whereabouts Used up as a target

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 Hyäne 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 hyena was commissioned from the Keier and Devrient shipyard in Danzig in mid-1859 and was launched in April 1860. An exact date of the launch is not known. After completion, the ship was transferred to the gunboat base on Dänholm in autumn 1860 and slipped on there .

With the mobilization order, the hyena was put into service on February 10, 1864 and assigned to the 1st  Flotilla Division during the German-Danish War . With this she took part in the naval battle near Jasmund against Danish ships on March 17th . After the end of the war, the boat remained in service until the beginning of October and was then decommissioned. The next activation took place just five years later in June 1869, but only to transfer the ship from Stralsund to Kiel .

With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , the hyena was put back into service on July 24, 1870 and moved through the Eider Canal to Wilhelmshaven to be used as an outpost ship there. From January 28, 1871, the ship belonged to the defense of the Elbe estuary , but did not come into contact with the enemy during the entire war and was decommissioned on May 20, 1871.

Whereabouts

In a check carried out in 1872 it was found that repairing the ship's hull, which was in poor condition, was not worthwhile. Therefore, on July 17, 1873, the ship was removed from the list of warships. Its boiler plant still good was to replace the worn-out steam generator of Fox used the hyena itself as a target ship up.

Commanders

Fall 1860	Lieutenant to the sea, 2nd class Ulffers
February 10 to March 1864	Lieutenant Christian Donner
March to October 1864	Unterleutnant zur See Riehl
June 29 to July 9, 1869	unknown
July 24, 1870 to May 20, 1871	Lieutenant to the Sea Ludewig

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. 186 .

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. ↑ ^{a b c} The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.
3. ↑ The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.