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The SMS Jagd was the second ship of the Wacht class , a class of Avisos of the Imperial Navy , to which only the type ship Wacht belonged. From 1899 both ships were classified as small cruisers .
construction
In the autumn of 1887, the Kiel was stretched at the Bremer Werft AG Weser for the second ship of the watch class . The Aviso, built under the name of Ersatz Pommerania , was ready for launch on July 7, 1888. The christening of the new building in the name of Jagd was carried out by the Inspector of the Second Marine Inspection, Rear Admiral Karl August Deinhard . In the middle of 1889 the ship was handed over to the Imperial Navy.
Working time
The hunt first entered service on June 25, 1889. First, test drives were carried out, but these were interrupted on August 6 and only continued after April 15, 1890 after being temporarily taken out of service. At the end of June the ship was released from the test drive relationship. The hunt then served the imperial yacht Hohenzollern temporarily as a dispatch boat . From August 1st to September 11th, the Aviso was stationed as a watch ship for the Baltic Sea naval station in Kiel . On October 3rd he was decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven . In the following period the armament was changed and four modern rapid loading cannons of the caliber 8.8 cm were installed.
On April 21, 1891, the hunt was put back into service and used as a watch ship in Wilhelmshaven. She was also used for a trip along the North Sea coast and as an escort ship for the Hohenzollern on trips to Amsterdam and Norway. During the autumn maneuvers, the hunt served as a signal repeater. After that she was decommissioned on October 5th. A year later, on October 13, 1892, the ship was reactivated to serve again as a watch ship in Wilhelmshaven. After the end of the autumn maneuvers, in which the hunt took part again, the Aviso was decommissioned on September 30, 1893. During the winter of 1893/94 the ship received a more modern boiler system at the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven .
The next reactivation took place on March 8, 1895. At the end of April, the Aviso was the first German warship to pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal for test purposes before its official opening. The hunt belonged to the maneuver squadron until it was decommissioned on December 19 . On March 18, 1896, the ship was put back into service and assigned to the 1st Squadron. With this the Aviso visited the Netherlands and Norway. The hunt remained in active use throughout the winter of 1897. Only on March 8, 1898 did this longest period of service of the Aviso end.
The last time the hunt , now classified as a small cruiser due to a very high cabinet order issued on February 27, 1899, was put into service on September 27, 1899 to replace its sister ship Wacht in the I. Squadron. The ship was briefly used from October 14 to November 23, 1900 for fishery protection in the North Sea. After overhaul work had been carried out in early 1901, from January 28 to February 7, 1901 , the hunt belonged to the German Fleet Association, which represented the German Empire in Great Britain during the funeral ceremonies for Queen Victoria . In April the cruiser took part in the work on the Adlergrund , where on April 2nd the Kaiser Friedrich III. ran aground and was badly damaged.
During an investigation carried out by the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven in mid-July it was found that the structural condition of the hunt did not allow the ship to be used any longer. The cruiser was therefore finally decommissioned on August 11, 1901.
Whereabouts
The hunt was reclassified as a port ship on May 3, 1904. Six years later, on May 14, 1910, the ship was removed from the list of warships. It then served as a hulk and shooting range for the torpedo workshop in Friedrichsort . In 1920 the ship was scrapped in Rüstringen .
Commanders
| June 25 to August 6, 1889 | Corvette Captain Max Piraly |
| April 15 to October 3, 1890 | Captain Reinhold Jachmann |
| April 21 to October 5, 1891 | Corvette Captain Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim |
| October 13, 1892 to April 1893 | Lieutenant Obenheimer |
| April 30th to September 30th 1893 | Corvette Captain John Hermann |
| March 8 to September 1895 | Corvette Captain Eduard Holzhauer |
| September 19 to December 19, 1895 | Corvette Captain Carl Friedrich |
| March 18 to September 1896 | Corvette Captain Guido von Usedom |
| September 1896 to September 1897 | Corvette Captain Hermann Lilie |
| September 1897 to March 8, 1898 | Corvette Captain Fritz Sommerwerck |
| September 27, 1899 to March 1901 | Corvette Captain von Oppeln-Bronikowski |
| March to August 11, 1901 | Corvette Captain Hugo von Cotzhausen |
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. 122 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. 216 f .