SMS Salamander (1860)

**salamander**
	The identical fox
Ship data
flag	Prussia North German Confederation German Empire; ;
Ship type	Gunboat
class	Hunter- class
Shipyard	AE Nüscke , Szczecin
Build number	88
building-costs	48,200 thalers
Launch	February 14, 1860
Commissioning	June 20, 1861
Removal from the ship register	November 12, 1878
Whereabouts	Used up as a cream
Ship dimensions and crew
length	41.2 m ( Lüa ) 39.0 m ( KWL )
width	6.69 m
Draft	Max. 2.2 m
displacement	Construction: 237 t; Maximum: 283 t
crew	40 men
Machine system
machine	4 transversely stationary suitcase boiler; 2 horizontal 1-cyl steam engines; 1 Rowing
Machine ; performance	220 hp (162 kW)
Top ; speed	9.0 kn (17 km / h)
propeller	1 three-leaf, ø 1.88 m
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	More beautiful
Number of masts	3
Sail area	300 m² m²
Armament
	1 × pulled 24 pounder (= 15 cm); 2 × pulled 12 pounders (= 12 cm);

The SMS Salamander was a Jäger class ship , a class of fifteen steam cannon boats, 2nd class, of the Royal Prussian Navy , the Navy of the North German Confederation and the Imperial Navy .

Construction and service time

The Salamander was commissioned from the A. E. Nüscke shipyard in Szczecin in the middle of 1859 . After construction began in the same year, the ship was launched on February 14, 1860. After completion, it was transferred to the gunboat base on Dänholm in the autumn of 1860 and laid up there.

The official first commissioning of the salamanders took place on June 20, 1861. The ship brought together with her sister ships hunters , fox and Scorpion and the gunboats First Class CAMäleon and Comet tests and exercises in the Baltic Sea by and participated in the subsequent journey of the Association to which later the Hela and as flagship acting Amazone occurred , in the North Sea , visiting Bremen and Hamburg . The Salamander was finally decommissioned on October 14th.

During the German-Danish War the Salamander was activated and belonged to the III. Flotilla Division. On July 3, 1864, the ship took part in a battle against Danish ships off Hiddensee . After the war ended, the gunboat was decommissioned on October 27 and mothballed again.

Only with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War was the Salamander put back into service on July 24, 1870 , to be stationed in Kiel . On August 17, she was involved in a battle against French ships off Hiddensee. At the beginning of October the ship was finally relocated to Wilhelmshaven and the rest of the war was stationed there. On April 11, 1871, it was finally decommissioned in Kiel.

The Salamander was then overhauled. Their boilers were renewed and the previous armament was replaced by a ring cannon 15 cm L / 22 . In addition, the rigging was removed. The ship was converted in this way and put into service on August 16, 1872 and initially used as a tender . After the great storm flood , a joint operation with the Meteor in Friedrichsort followed from November 13th , as water had penetrated into the fort there .

Apart from a few exercises and the aid operation carried out together with the Nautilus in mid-May 1874 for the nymph who had got stuck near Langeland , the salamander served as a tender in the following years. On June 15, 1875, it was finally decommissioned after almost three years of continuous activity.

Whereabouts

The Salamander was removed from the list of warships on November 12, 1878 and used up as a premium . The Wolf gunboat was launched as a replacement in the same year .

Commanders

June 1861	Lieutenant 1st class Eduard Arendt
June 14th to October 14th 1861	Lieutenant 2nd class Ratzeburg
February 21 to October 27, 1864	Ensign to the sea / lieutenant II. Class / lieutenant to the sea Rohr von Hallerstein
July 24 to September 1870	Lieutenant for the Sea Eduard Starcke
September 1870 to April 11, 1871	Lieutenant for the Sea Rudolf Freiherr von Rössing
August 16, 1872 to April 1873	Lieutenant Schwarzlose
April to May 1873	Unterleutnant zur See Kohlhauer
May to November 1873	Lieutenant Richard von Geissler
November 1873 to January 1874	Lieutenant to the sea Julius Köthner
January to February 1874	Unterleutnant zur See Ernst von Frantzius
February 1874	Unterleutnant zur See Kohlhauer
February to April 1874	Lieutenant to the sea Maschke
April to August 1874	Lieutenant of the Sea Trewendt
August to November 1874	Lieutenant to the Sea of Raven
November 1874 to June 15, 1875	Lieutenant to the sea Maschke

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. 160 f .
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. 100 f .

Footnotes

↑ The designation of the lower officer ranks was set 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 lieutenant commander.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.

[1] The designation of the lower officer ranks was set 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.

[KL-2] The rank corresponds to a lieutenant commander.

[OLzS-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.

[LzS-4] The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.