SMS shame
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| Overview | |
| Shipyard |
Hong Kong |
| delivery | Purchased January 1, 1900 |
| Namesake | Island in front of Canton , which served as a foreign settlement |
| Commissioning | 20th October 1900 |
| Removed from ship register | January 27, 1904 |
| Whereabouts | February 10, 1904 Sold to Hong Kong for $ 8,000 silver |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
36.8 t |
| length |
24.0 m |
| width |
3.6 m |
| Draft |
1.4 m |
| crew |
12 men and 6 Chinese assistants |
| drive |
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| speed |
10.0 kn |
| Range |
450 nm at 5 kn |
| Armament |
1 × 3.7 cm machine cannon |
| measurement |
27 GRT |
| Bunker quantity |
5.5 tons of coal |
The SMS Schamien (ex. Chinese: Tong Cheong ) was the first river gunboat of the German Imperial Navy to be used in China . It was used from 1900 to 1904 as part of the East Asia Squadron on the Pearl River near Canton .
career
The saddle Mien was a river barge , the 1899 as Tong Cheong for the Kowloon - Dock -Company in Hong Kong had been built. In order to be able to carry out the German gunboat policy in China, the German cruiser squadron needed small gunboats that were able to operate in the shallow waters of Chinese rivers.
At the suggestion of the commander of the East Asia Squadron, Prince Heinrich of Prussia , on November 1, 1899, the Tong Cheong was purchased, converted and equipped and manned by the gunboat SMS Luchs . The Shamien entered service on October 10, 1900 on the Pearl River. It was used in the river system around Canton. In January 1901 a new crew for the boat arrived from Germany so that the 12 people of the lynx could return to their ship.
Shamien was not involved in combat operations during her service .
After the commissioning of the river cannon boat SMS Tsingtau , the Shamien was decommissioned on February 2, 1904. It was sold to Hong Kong on February 10, 1904 for $ 8,000 silver . Her further fate is not known.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945, Vol. 1: Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats , Munich 1982, p. 171f.
- Keyword: river cannon boat "Schamien" , in: Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Ratingen o. J. (One-volume reprint of the seven-volume original edition, Herford 1979ff.,) Vol. V., p. 94f.
- Cord Eberspächer: The German Yangtze Patrol. German Gunboat Policy in China in the Age of Imperialism 1900-1914 , Bochum 2004.