SMS Lynx
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type | Gunboat | |
| Ship class | Polecat class | |
| Construction designation: | Replacement hawk | |
| Builder: | Imperial shipyard in Gdansk | |
| Keel laying : | 1898 | |
| Launch : | October 18, 1899 | |
| Completion: | May 15, 1900 | |
| Building-costs: | 1.622 million marks | |
| Ship dimensions | ||
| Measurement: | 758 BRT 495 NRT |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 894 t Maximum: 1,108 t |
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| Length of the waterline : Length over all: |
L HCS = 63.9 m L oa = 65.2 m |
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| Width: | 9.1 m | |
| Draft : | 3.56-3.74 m | |
| Side height : | 4.71-4.86 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Boiler system : | 4 Thornycroft coal -fired boilers |
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| Machinery: | 2 standing 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of propellers: | 2 three-leaf 2.6 m | |
| Shaft speed: | 165 / min | |
| Drive power: | 1,345 PSi | |
| Speed: | 13.9 kn (test drive: 14.8 kn) |
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| Driving range: | 2,580 nm at 9 kn | |
| Fuel supply: | 165–203 tons of coal | |
| Crew: | 9 officers and 121 men | |
| Armament | ||
| Sea target guns: | 2 Sk - 10.5 cm L / 40 482 shots, 122 hm |
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| Revolver cannons : | 6 × 3.7 cm 9000 shots |
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| Whereabouts | ||
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in position 36 ° 3 ' N , 120 ° 16' O itself sunk |
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SMS Luchs was a polecat class gunboat of the Imperial Navy .
The six boats in the class - in addition to the Luchs , SMS Iltis , SMS Jaguar , SMS Tiger , SMS Panther , and SMS Eber - were designed for service in the overseas colonies and were very seaworthy and maneuverable. Two triple expansion steam engines with a total of 1345 hp gave them a maximum speed of 13.9 knots. The range of action under steam was 3,080 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 9 knots. In order to increase the radius of action, the boats had sails rigged so that fuel could be saved on longer journeys.
commitment
The ship was laid down at the Kaiserliche Werft in Danzig in 1898 , launched on October 18, 1899 and put into service on May 15, 1900. With a length of 65.2 m over all (63.9 m at the waterline), 9.1 m width and 3.5 m draft, it displaced 977 tons. The crew consisted of about 120-130 men. The ship was armed with two 10.5-cm rapid- loading cannons and six 3.7-cm revolver cannons.
The lynx was actually intended for the East America station. During the test drives the relocation to China was ordered because of the Boxer Rebellion . On July 7, 1900, she left Kiel for East Asia and never returned to Germany.
From Port Said the gunboat marched together with the battleship division sent to China under the command of Rear Admiral Richard Geißler on his flagship SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm . Due to a machine failure, the Luchs had to visit Aden on August 1st . There she was together with the small cruiser SMS Bussard , which, actually intended for East Africa, had also been ordered to China with the liner division and had a machine breakdown. Both continued the journey only together. The gunboat was faster, however, and soon left the old cruiser behind. The lynx reached Singapore on August 29 and Hong Kong on September 7, 1900 . The lynx was assigned to the Pearl River as an area of operation, and it operated a river launch as SMS Schamien to control ship traffic. Until it was replaced by the sister ship Jaguar in February 1901, she performed station duty in the Canton area . She then supported the re-embarkation of the East Asian Expeditionary Force at Tongku near Taku and was then formally assigned to the East Asian Station. In the autumn she made her first trip up the Yangtze to Hankau , where she stayed as a stationary over the winter until April 1902.
Shortly afterwards, together with SMS Schwalbe and SMS Geier , she intervened in unrest in Ningpo .
The following years saw the lynx in quieter station services with rides throughout the area. In 1902 she visited Japanese ports for the first time and in November 1905 Bangkok.
At first she had to go to docks in Shanghai or Hong Kong for repairs. The necessary repairs could be carried out from March to May 1907 at the new imperial shipyard in Tsingtau .
On May 23, 1907, she offered help to the French armored cruiser Chanzy , which was stranded in the Chu-san archipelago , and was refused. The armored cruiser then sank on May 30th.
The Luchs spent the turn of the year 1910/11 with SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Leipzig in Hong Kong, in order to then bring the squadron chief (as in 1908) to Bangkok for a visit from the King of Siam . The two cruisers then traveled through the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines until March . In April and May 1911, the lynx was involved in international protection measures in the province of Hupeh.
At the beginning of the Chinese Revolution in 1911, the Luchs was off Hankau and mostly stayed on the Yangtze until mid-1912. During his visit in the autumn of 1912, Prince Heinrich , the Emperor's brother and Inspector General of the Navy, visited the Luchs in Tsingtau. In 1912 and 1913 further deployments followed at the hotspots of the revolution, and in August the Luchs was involved with six gunboats from other powers in an intervention near Chingkiang on the Yangtze.
Outbreak and end of war
In July 1914, the Luchs was docked in Shanghai . The international tensions prompted a hasty relocation to Tsingtau . Together with the sister ship Jaguar and the torpedo boat SMS S 90 , the Luchs provided security around the Kiautschou protected area . When the Reichspoststampfer Prinz Eitel Friedrich of North German Lloyd arrived at the beginning of August 1914 , the lynx was armed on the Prinz Eitel Friedrich and with it and with most of the crew the lynx was made into an auxiliary cruiser . The sister ship Tiger gave up weapons and crew in the same amount. The commandant of the ship was the previous commander of the Luchs , Corvette Captain Thierichens.
When the conquest of the colony by Japanese troops had become inevitable, the Luchs , their sister ships Iltis and Tiger as well as the old gunboat SMS Cormoran , all of which had surrendered their weapons, were on the night of 28/29. Blasted and sunk in the harbor by the rest of the crew in September 1914 so as not to let them fall into Japanese hands.
Only the sister ship Jaguar was actively used against the besiegers and only on 7/8. November 1914 also blown up and sunk in almost the same place.
Commanders
| May 1900 to October 1901 | Corvette Captain Harald Dähnhardt (1863–1944) |
| October to November 1901 | Lieutenant Commander Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer (1868–1942) represented |
| November 1901 to January 1903 | Corvette Captain Georg Wuthmann (1863-1940) |
| January to March 1903 | Lieutenant Commander Ernst Ewers (1873–1940) on his behalf |
| March 1903 to November 1904 | Corvette Captain Emil Kröncke (1866–1921) |
| November 1904 to November 1906 | Lieutenant Captain / Corvette Captain Johannes Hartog (1867–1947) |
| November 1906 to November 1908 | Corvette Captain Siegfried Bölken (1871–1916) died as commander of SMS Pomerania |
| November 1908 to November 1910 | Corvette Captain Karl von Hornhardt (1872–1958) |
| November 1910 to November 1912 | Captain Lieutenant / Corvette Captain Hermann Bendemann (1876–1938) |
| November 1912 to August 1914 | Corvette Captain Max Thierichens (1874–1930) |
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 1. Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . Koehler, Herford.
Remarks
- ↑ Year of construction 1894, 4736 t - Chanzy (croiseur cuirassé) in the French-language Wikipedia
Coordinates: 36 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 120 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E
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