SMS Meteor (1890)
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SMS Meteor was the type ship of a class of Avisos of the Imperial Navy named after her, to which the Comet also belonged. From 1899 both ships were classified as small cruisers .
construction
Construction of the Avisos F began in December 1888 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel . On January 20, 1890, the new building was ready for launch and was named Meteor . In the spring of 1891, the shipyard carried out test drives and then handed the ship over to the Imperial Navy.
Working time
The Meteor was first put into service on May 15, 1891 and assigned as a watch ship to the Baltic Sea naval station in Kiel . First, however, the ship carried out test drives, which were interrupted from July 30 to August 24, 1891 due to necessary repairs. The Aviso was only available for its actual task on September 28th, but only performed it until October 3rd. On that day, the ship was decommissioned and went to the shipyard to have defects discovered during the test drives remedied. The chimneys were lengthened by 1.5 m in order to prevent the weapons on the aft deck from being obstructed by the escaping smoke.
On May 20, 1892, the Meteor was put back into service, initially to carry out test drives again. She also resumed guard duty in Kiel. During the autumn maneuvers of the fleet of Aviso served from mid-August to 26 September as the leader ship of II. Torpedo Boat - Flotilla . After Kaiser Wilhelm II was on board during a voyage at the beginning of November , the Meteor was decommissioned on December 6th.
In 1893, the Meteor was activated on April 5 and assigned to the I. Division of the maneuvering fleet, to which it belonged until it was decommissioned after the autumn maneuvers were completed. In the following year, from June 30th, the ship served as an escort ship for the new Hohenzollern , with which the Kaiser undertook a trip to the north. However, this task had to be stopped early after an engine failure occurred in Stavanger . This could be repaired with on-board resources, but the Meteor was released to Kiel for the final repair and the accompanying task was taken over by Prinzess Wilhelm . After participating in the autumn maneuvers, the Aviso was decommissioned on September 30, 1894.
From March 19, 1895, the Meteor was used in fishery protection off the German North Sea coast. This activity was interrupted from June 14th to 22nd by participation in the opening of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal and finally ended on August 27th. On this day, the meteor was assigned to the maneuver squadron that had met for the autumn maneuvers. After its completion, the ship was decommissioned in Kiel on September 24th.
The Meteor took over the fishery protection service in the North Sea again from March 18, 1896. In mid-April the Aviso stayed in Dover to accompany the new sailing yacht of Prince Heinrich of Prussia on its transfer to Germany. From the end of May, the Meteor was also used as a training ship for machinists and stokers and thus had to deal with two functions. From June 3rd to 6th the ship was in Lowestoft , where British, Dutch and German fisheries protection vessels got together to exchange experiences. Another interruption of fishery protection activities brought the autumn maneuvers, during which the Meteor was part of the fleet as a reconnaissance aircraft from August 9 to early September. With the decommissioning on October 4, 1896, the active use of the Aviso ended. Due to its poor seaworthiness, it was no longer used in fleet service. In the meantime , the Meteor was also unsuitable for fisheries protection , as the area to be patrolled became larger and the range of the ship was no longer sufficient. The SMS Zieten therefore replaced the Meteor .
Whereabouts
The Meteor initially remained without function and was reclassified as a port ship on May 3, 1903. On June 24, 1911, it was deleted from the list of warships. The ship was then used in Kiel as a residential ship for submarine crews, finally sold in 1919 and scrapped in Rendsburg-Audorf .
The small cruiser SMS Königsberg , launched in 1905, was built as a replacement .
Commanders
| May 15 to July 30, 1891 | Corvette Captain Jaeckel |
| August 24 to October 3, 1891 | Corvette Captain Jaeckel |
| May 20 to September 1892 | Lieutenant Captain Ernst Graf von Baudissin |
| September 1892 | Corvette Captain Carl Rosendahl |
| September 6th to December 6th, 1892 | Corvette Captain Jaeckel |
| April 5 to September 29, 1893 | Corvette Captain Henning von Holtzendorff |
| June 30th to September 30th, 1894 | Corvette Captain Heinrich Walther |
| March 19 to September 24, 1895 | Lieutenant Captain Kurt von Möller |
| March 18 to October 4, 1896 | Lieutenant Neitzke |
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. 123 .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 6 : Ship biographies from Lützow to Prussia . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 80-82 .