SMS Schwalbe (1860)

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swallow
The identical fox
The identical fox
Ship data
flag PrussiaPrussia (war flag) Prussia North German Confederation German Empire
North German ConfederationNorth German Confederation (war flag) 
German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) 
Ship type Gunboat
class Hunter- class
Shipyard AE Nüscke , Szczecin
Build number 89
building-costs 48,200 thalers
Launch February 14, 1860
Commissioning March 1, 1864
Removal from the ship register March 19, 1872
Whereabouts Used up as a cream
Ship dimensions and crew
length
41.2 m ( Lüa )
38.0 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
Armament
  • 1 × pulled 24 pounder (= 15 cm)
  • 2 × pulled 12 pounders (= 12 cm)

SMS Schwalbe 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 Schwalbe , which was ordered from the A. E. Nüscke shipyard in Szczecin in mid-1859 , was launched on February 14, 1860. Only with the beginning of the German-Danish War was the ship officially put into service on March 1, 1864, although it had already been transferred to the base of the gunboats on Dänholm in 1860 . The Schwalbe was used in the II  Flotilla Division, but did not come into combat contact with Danish ships. After the end of the war, the gunboat was taken out of service and mothballed on Dänholm.

The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War brought the swallow to its second and final service . It was put into service on July 24, 1870 and three days later began the march through the Eider Canal into the North Sea , where it was used in the outpost service on the Jade . The gunboat in Geestemünde was decommissioned on October 5, 1870 .

Whereabouts

Due to the poor technical condition determined by the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven , the Schwalbe was removed from the list of warships on March 19, 1872. The ship then served for several years as mines barge and was eventually scrapped.

Commanders

March 1 to October 1864 Ensign to the sea / lieutenant to the sea Karl August Deinhard
July 24th to October 5th, 1870 Lieutenant to the sea Krokisius

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. 143 .

Footnotes

  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.
  2. The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.
  3. a b The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.