SMS Scorpion (1860)

**Scorpion**
	The identical fox
Ship data
flag	Prussia North German Confederation German Empire; ;
Ship type	Gunboat
class	Hunter- class
Shipyard	Domcke , Szczecin
building-costs	47,300 thalers
Launch	February 14, 1860
Commissioning	June 25, 1861
Removal from the ship register	January 9, 1877
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);

The SMS Scorpion 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 Scorpion was ordered from the Domcke shipyard in Szczecin in mid-1859 and was launched there on February 14, 1860. After completion, the ship was brought to the gunboat base on Dänholm and only put into service on June 25, 1861. The occasion was the trip of a ship association to the North Sea , during which Hamburg and Bremen were visited. At this Association included not only the Scorpion her sister ships hunters , fox and salamanders , as well as the gunboats First Class CAMäleon and Comet , the saver Hel and as a flagship acting Corvette Amazone . Various tests followed the North Sea voyage until the Scorpion was finally decommissioned on October 15 and mothballed on Dänholm.

In the course of mobilization before the looming German-Danish War , the Scorpion was put back into service on February 11, 1864 and assigned to the 1st Flotilla Division. The gunboat took part in the naval battle at Jasmund against Danish ships on March 17th and was decommissioned on October 21st after the end of the war. In the following year the ship was assigned to the mine depot in Kiel and relocated there, with the Scorpion towing two oar cannon sloops. However, this happened without official commissioning.

During the German-German War , the Scorpion was kept in service without taking part in combat operations. In 1867 and 1868 the ship was used as a station tender in Kiel and was used to train machine personnel. From May 3, 1869, the Scorpion served as a tender for the artillery training ship Thetis and was also used from August 30 to September 4 for exercises with armored ships in the western Baltic Sea .

With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , the Scorpion was put into service on July 22nd, 1870 and was designated as a watch ship for Friedrichsort , where she had to guard the mine barrier and prevent merchant ships from entering it. On May 24, 1871, the ship was decommissioned again, then overhauled in 1872, whereby the boiler system was renewed and the previous armament was replaced by a 15 cm L / 22 ring cannon . However, the ship was not used again.

Whereabouts

The Scorpion was removed from the list of warships on January 9, 1877 and used up as a prahm in Kiel .

The gunboat Hyäne , launched in 1878, was built to replace the Scorpion .

Commanders

June 25 to September 1861	Lieutenant to the sea 2nd class Ullfers
September 15 to October 15, 1861	Lieutenant to the sea 2nd class Olberg
February 11 to October 21, 1864	Ensign at sea / lieutenant at sea Emil von Rabenau
April to September 1866	unknown
February 21 to October 1867	unknown
May 28 to October 1868	unknown
May 3 to July 1869	Unterleutnant zur See Jeschke
July to October 30, 1869	Lieutenant to the sea Otto Herbig
July 22, 1870 to May 24, 1871	Lieutenant Becks

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. 148 f . (Approved licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).

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.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.
↑ ^a ^b 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.

[OLzS-2] The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.

[LzS-3] The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.