SMS Mosel

Moselle

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type monitor class Rhine class Shipyard AG Weser , Bremen Build number 24 building-costs 94,500 thalers Launch 1872 Commissioning April 25, 1874 Whereabouts Sold in 1884

Ship dimensions and crew length 49.6 m ( Lüa ) 47.85 m ( KWL ) width 7.85 m Draft Max. 1.07 m displacement Construction: 200 t Maximum: 283 t   crew 23 men

Machine system machine 2 steam locomotive boilers 2 × 2-cylinder steam engine indicated performance 320 hp (235 kW) Top speed 8.25 kn (15 km / h) propeller 2 three-winged ø 0.95 m

Armament 2 × cannon 12 cm L / 19 (300 rounds) Armor Citadel: 16–55 mm on 150–200 mm teak Tower: 16–55 mm on 150–200 mm teak Command tower: 16–40 mm

The SMS Mosel was a river monitor of the German Imperial Navy . Together with her sister ship the Rhine, she belonged to the Rhine class named after her . The ship put into service in 1874 was sold again in 1884.

history

After the Franco-Prussian War , the navy decided to purchase two armored vehicles to defend the Rhine and Moselle . The Bremer Werft AG Weser was awarded the contract for the design and construction of these ships. It was the Navy's first order from the shipyard . Work on the Moselle , which was given construction number 24 by AG Weser, began in July 1872. The launch took place that same year . The further construction dragged on until 1874. Together with the Rhine , the Moselle first came into service on April 25, 1874. Both monitors began their journey to Rotterdam and up the Rhine. After they had presumably received their armament at the Wesel Fortress , they were initially decommissioned. Reactivated on April 7, 1875, the ships made trips on the Rhine to Strasbourg . On April 20, Kaiser Wilhelm I visited the units lying in front of Biebrich at that time . On May 17, 1875, the monitors came under the orders of the 7th Fortress Inspection of the VIII Army Corps . From then on, they received Koblenz as their base. Nothing is known about further operations. The Moselle and its sister ship were sold in December 1884. Their whereabouts are unknown.

literature

• Gardiner, Robert (Ed.): Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 . Conway Maritime Press, London 1979, ISBN 0-85177-133-5 , pp. 261 .
• 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. 163 f .
• 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. 120 (Approved licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
• 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. 68–70 (Approved licensed edition Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 7, p. 69.
2. ↑ Groner / Jung / Maass: The German warships. Volume 1, p. 163.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 6, p. 120.