SMS Jäger (ship, 1883)
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The SMS Jäger was a torpedo boat of the Imperial Navy . The single ship , completed in 1883, was mainly used as a test vehicle and was taken out of service in 1889.
history
The Jäger was officially ordered to replace the old gunboat SMS Natter and was designed and built by AG Weser in Bremen . The shipyard had already delivered the seven Schütze- class torpedo boats in 1882 . The hunter was slightly larger than these boats and expired on January 27, 1883 from the stack . It got its name, which was derived from the military force of the hunters . The first commissioning of the boat took place on July 24, 1882. It turned out to be a ship with poor sea characteristics. So the hunter turned only moderately and was also difficult to maneuver. These deficiencies resulted in only a short period of use. The Jäger was in service until the end of 1883 and was deployed from April to the end of September 1884. The third and last active period was from May to August 1887.
On May 13, 1889, the Jäger was removed from the list of warships. The boat was sold to Hamburg in 1900 and was broken up there in the following years.
technology
The Jäger had a hull made of steel in transverse frame construction . It was 33.5 m long and 5.58 m wide between perpendiculars and 34.8 m across. With a displacement of 140 t, the maximum draft of the boat was 1.8 m forward and 2.57 m aft .
As a drive, the Jäger had a standing two-cylinder steam engine that worked according to the compound principle . The machine developed an indicated power of 550 hp and acted on a screw with a 1.82 m diameter . For steam generation is one was steam locomotive boiler aboard the torpedo boat, which a vapor pressure of 8 atmospheres generated.
The armament of the boat consisted of two torpedo tubes with a diameter of 35 cm, which were located above the waterline. A total of six torpedoes were carried for these tubes . In addition, the hunters had two ring cannons of the caliber 8.7 cm L / 45 and a revolver cannon caliber 3.7 cm of the Hotchkiss type .
Commanders
| July 24th to September 1883 | Lieutenant Schnars at Sea |
| September 31st to December 31st, 1883 | Lieutenant to the sea Otto Mandt |
| April 22nd to September 30th, 1884 | Lieutenant Jaeschke |
| May 29 to August 27, 1887 | Lieutenant Carl Wodrig |
literature
- Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 2 : torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 , p. 31 .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 9 : Collective chapter landing craft, mine ships, minesweepers, speedboats, training ships, special ships, tenders and escort ships, torpedo boats, supply ships . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 223 (Approved licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e Gröner / Jung / Maass: The German warships. Volume 2, p. 31.
- ↑ a b c Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 9, p. 223.
- ↑ a b The designation of the lower officer ranks was established 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. The rank corresponds to a current lieutenant at sea. Cf. Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 7 : Ship biographies from Prussian eagle to Ulan . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 101 (Licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).