SMS Snow White

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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
other ship names
  • A.
  • A 1
Ship type Torpedo boat
Shipyard Imperial Shipyard , Danzig
Launch December 20, 1888
Commissioning October 10, 1889
Whereabouts Sold and broken up in 1921
Ship dimensions and crew
length
34.63 m ( Lüa )
width 4.14 m
Draft Max. 2.15 m
displacement Construction: 56 t
Maximum: 88 t
 
crew 14 men
Machine system
machine 1 × steam locomotive
boiler 1 × 3-cylinder compound machine
indicated
performance
Template: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format
591 PS (435 kW)
Top
speed
16.5 kn (31 km / h)
propeller 1 three-leaf 1.46 m
Armament

SMS Snow White was originally a pilot boat A built torpedo boat of the German Imperial Navy .

Technical specifications

The boat was launched on 20 December 1888 at the Imperial Shipyard Gdansk from the stack . The small, steel- built boat, with two masts and a chimney, was 34.61 m long and 4.14 m wide, had a 2.15 m draft and only displaced 72 tons (fully equipped 87 tons). His steam engine developed 591 PSi and achieved a speed of 12 to 13 knots , even up to 16.5 knots for a short time. The boat was armed with two 35 cm torpedo tubes and two 37 mm Hotchkiss revolver cannons. The crew consisted of an officer and 13 men.

history

As the boat was soon technically obsolete due to the rapid development of torpedo boats, it was disarmed in 1898 and converted into a station yacht. On the aft deck , which was previously arched and now leveled by laying a wooden deck , there was an all-round closed deckhouse with a roofed platform reaching to the stern. The rudder angle was increased and provided with windows instead of the previous slits, and the chimney is extended by 1.5 m and with a designed as an ornamental ring cranked provided. On January 30, 1899, the boat, now renamed Snow White , began its service as a station yacht of the Baltic Sea naval station in Kiel .

The boat survived the First World War , served a short time in the Reichsmarine and was then scrapped in 1921 after the North Sea tender was reactivated on February 16, 1921 and assigned to the Baltic Sea naval station.

Web links

literature

  • Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 2 : torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 , pp. 35 .
  • Weyer's Fleet Pocket Book 1902