SMS Stuttgart

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Stuttgart
Drawing of the class from Jane's Fighting Ships
Drawing of the class from Jane's Fighting Ships
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type Small cruiser
class Koenigsberg class
Shipyard Imperial Shipyard , Danzig
building-costs 5,488,000 marks
Launch September 22, 1906
Commissioning February 1, 1908
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1920
Ship dimensions and crew
length
117.4 m ( Lüa )
116.8 m ( KWL )
width 13.3 m
Draft Max. 5.4 m
displacement Construction: 3,469 t,
maximum: 4,002 t
 
crew 322 men
Machine system
machine 11 marine boilers,
2 3-cylinder compound machines
Machine
performance
13,146 hp (9,669 kW)
Top
speed
23.9 kn (44 km / h)
propeller 2 four-leaf ⌀ 4.0 m
Armament
Armor
  • Armored deck : 20-80 mm
  • Coam: 100 mm
  • Command tower: 20–100 mm
  • Shields: 50 mm

The SMS Stuttgart was a small cruiser of the Imperial Navy and the third ship of the Königsberg class .

technology

The Stuttgart was one of the three small cruisers whose aft chimney was "detached". This meant that the distance to the middle chimney was greater than that between the middle and the front chimney.

history

On September 22, 1906, Dr. Gauss, the then Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, the baptism. On February 1, 1908, the ship was put into service. The trials ended on April 9, 1908, but due to a lack of staff, the Stuttgart had to be launched for a year.

Peace operations

On February 16, 1909, the Kleine Kreuzer Stuttgart became a training ship for automatic cannons for the ship artillery inspection. He replaced the small cruiser Nymph . In the next five years, Stuttgart  - part of the reserve fleet - took part in all maneuvers and parades. In 1913, she helped the stranded Great Cruiser Blücher .

War missions

When the war started, the cruiser Stuttgart was in the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig . On August 7, 1914, he was ready for action again and joined the IV reconnaissance group in Wilhelmshaven . The ship was used in outpost and security service as well as in mine operations. In May 1915 the Stuttgart took part in forays into the eastern Baltic Sea. There was some combat contact with Russian warships. After returning to the North Sea, the ship was again in service in the Baltic Sea between October 1915 and January 1916. This was followed by a longer layover in Wilhelmshaven.

In the fourth reconnaissance group ( Commodore Ludwig von Reuter ) the Stuttgart took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak . She remained unharmed. On December 15, 1916, the ship was decommissioned and its crew took over the new small cruiser Emden .

From February to May 1918, the Stuttgart was converted into an aircraft mother ship at the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven . She got three planes on board, two of them in hangars and one on deck. Six of the 10.5 cm guns were also removed. Instead, the Stuttgart received two 8.8 cm anti-aircraft cannons. From May 16, 1918 until the end of the war, she provided reconnaissance services in the German Bight .

post war period

On December 17, the Stuttgart was decommissioned and deleted from the list of warships on November 5, 1919. On July 20, 1920, the ship was delivered to Great Britain and scrapped there.

Commanders

February to April 1908 Frigate Captain Georg Schur
February to September 1909 Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Werner Max
September 1909 to September 1911 Corvette captain / frigate captain Moritz von Obernitz
December 1910 Lieutenant Captain Ernst Stever (deputy)
September 1911 to September 1913 Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Otto Roessler
October 1, 1913 to August 3, 1915 Frigate captain / sea ​​captain Friedrich Richter
August 1915 to February 1916 Frigate Captain Lothar von Gohren
February to December 1916 Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Max Hagedorn
May to November 1918 Corvette captain / frigate captain Otto von Alvensleben
November to December 1918 unoccupied

literature

  • Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982. ( The German warships 1815–1945 , Vol. 1) ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
  • Hildebrand, Hans H./Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: Ship biographies from Kaiser to Lütjens. Mundus Verlag, Ratingen o. J. ( The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , vol. 5).
  • Koop, Gerhard / Klaus-Peter Schmolke: Small cruisers 1903–1918, Bremen to Cöln class , volume 12 ship classes and ship types of the German Navy, Bernard & Graefe Verlag Munich, 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6252-3 .

Footnotes

  1. Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz run the Königsberg as a single ship and consider the three other cruisers to be a separate Nuremberg class. Gröner and Koop / Schmolke, however, see the Königsberg as the type ship of the class.
  2. Picture of the converted cruiser