SMS Seeadler (ship, 1892)
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 SMS Seeadler in New York in 1893 |
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type |
Small cruiser ( unprotected cruiser ) |
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| Ship class | Buzzard- class | |
| Construction designation: | Replacement eagle | |
| Builder: |
Imperial shipyard in Gdansk, construction no .: |
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| Keel laying : | 1890 | |
| Launch : | February 2, 1892 | |
| Completion: | 1892 Rebuilding: 1898–99 |
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| Building-costs: | 2.46 million marks | |
| Ship dimensions | ||
| Measurement: before renovation |
1028 BRT 468 NRT |
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| Measurement: after renovation |
1049 BRT 472 NRT |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 1612 t maximum: 1864 t after conversion: 1887 t |
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| Length of the waterline : Length over all: |
L KWL : 79.6 m L overall approx : 82.6 m |
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| Width: | KWL: 10.5 m over everything: 12.7 m |
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| Draft : | 4.42 - 5.35 m | |
| Side height : | 6.42 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Boiler system : | 4 cylinder boilers | |
| Machinery: | 2 horizontal 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines |
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| Number of propellers: | 2 three-leaf 3 m | |
| Shaft speed: | 134 / min | |
| Drive power: | 2888 PSi | |
| Speed: | 16.9 kn | |
| Driving range: | 2950 nm at 9 kn after conversion: 3040 nm |
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| Fuel supply: | 205 - 315 t coal after conversion: 340 t |
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| Rigging : |
Schoonerbark after conversion: topsail schooner main mast: triangular sails |
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| Crew: | 9 officers and 152 men after conversion: 157 men |
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| Armament | ||
| Sea target guns: | 8 Sk - 10.5 cm L / 35 800 rounds, 108 hm 5 Rev - 3.7 cm |
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Torpedo tubes 35 cm: |
2 on deck | |
| Whereabouts | ||
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destroyed by explosion on April 19, 1917 |
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SMS Seeadler was a small unprotected cruiser IV class of the Imperial Navy , the third of six ships of the Bussard class built between 1890 and 1894 . Sister ships were buzzard , falcon , condor , cormorant and vulture .
The buzzard class
The Bussard class was designed for use in the German overseas colonies. The cruisers had a particularly large bunker capacity in order to be able to carry enough coal for long missions and were equipped with a sail rigging to save fuel on long journeys. They were very seaworthy, but their side-mounted guns forced them to throttle in heavy seas.
The ships were 76 m long and 10 m wide and had a draft of 4.8 m . The first two, Buzzard and Falcon , displaced 1,570 tons, the other four 1,630 tons. They were armed with eight 10.5 cm guns and five 3.7 cm revolver cannons and ran 15 knots. The nominal strength of the crew was 165 men.
history
The sea eagle was launched on February 2, 1892 at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig as Imperial Eagle , but was renamed Seeadler on June 27, 1892 , as the old imperial yacht was named Kaiseradler after the launch of the Hohenzollern .
After commissioning on March 15, 1893, the ship was sent together with the new cruiser corvette Empress Augusta to New York for the Columbian Naval Review on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America . The swift Empress Augusta met the sea eagles shortly before Halifax and had to tow them because of a lack of coal, as the sea eagles would have arrived too late under sail. Both ships entered Hampton Roads on April 26th and then on to New York.
First foreign service 1893–1898
After the celebrations ended, the Seeadler was sent to the East Africa station on May 13th to replace the cruiser Schwalbe , which had been stationed there since 1888 . She arrived in Zanzibar on September 2, 1893 and then did station duty in East Africa until the beginning of May 1898, with a short break from April to May 1896 in German South West Africa . In October 1896, Chalid ibn Barghasch , the former sultan of Zanzibar , who sought asylum from the British in the German consulate after the 38-minute British-Zanzibar War , was removed from there on board the sea eagles ; this has been described by the New York Times as an affront to England. On June 26, 1898, the ship returned to Kiel .
Second period of use 1899–1914
The ship was decommissioned in July 1898 and then overhauled in Danzig . After being put into service again on October 3, 1899, the sea eagle was ordered two weeks later to the South Seas, where it was used in the Pacific island regions from November 15, 1899 to July 1900 . From August 1900 she became part of the East Asian cruiser squadron because of the Boxer Rebellion . She served in various coastal locations in China, but also visited Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In June 1905 she was released again for station service in the South Seas. But having just arrived in the station area, she received new orders in Ponape .
On the occasion of the Maji-Maji uprising that broke out in July 1905 , the cruiser was detached on August 20, 1905 together with the small cruiser SMS Thetis to the East African station in Dar es Salaam . The sea eagle arrived in Dar es Salaam on October 1, 1905, when the height of the crisis had already passed. The ship was then on duty there until January 9, 1914 and from March to April 1908 also in German South West Africa .
Back in Germany in March 1914, the ship was decommissioned and reclassified as a gunboat in May . Due to its age, it was no longer reactivated after the outbreak of the First World War , but was used in Wilhelmshaven as a storage hulk for sea mines . There it sank after an explosion on board on April 19, 1917 on the Jade (position: 53 ° 29 ′ N , 8 ° 12 ′ E, ). 19 men who were on the ship at the time were killed.
See also
The bay Seeadlerhafen (also: Port Seeadler, Seeadler harbor) on the island of Manus was named after the ship.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ query.nytimes.com: An affront to England - Germany takes Said Khalid under her protection. , October 3, 1896, accessed January 30, 2011
- ^ Bernhard Buchholz: Experiences of the machinist Otto Gehring from SMS "Bussard" during the Maji-Maji uprising in German East Africa. Without location information. Without a time. Page 2. ( online )