SMS Taku
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 The accumulated SMS Taku during the low tide |
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| Overview | |
| Type | As Hai Jing : Destroyer as Taku : Torpedo boat |
| Shipyard |
F. Schichau , Elbing, building no. 608 |
| Launch | 1898 as Hai Jing |
| Namesake | Port and fort system at the mouth of the Peiho in China |
| period of service |
1902-1913 |
| Commissioning | July 14, 1902 |
| Decommissioning | December 30, 1913 |
| home port | Tsingtau |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
Construction: 284 t |
| length |
59 m |
| width |
6.4 m |
| Draft |
2.55 m |
| crew |
43 to 57 men |
| drive |
4 Schichau-Thornycroft water tube boilers |
| speed |
32 kn |
| Range |
2100 nm at 14 knots, |
| Armament |
up to 1902: |
| Bunker quantity |
67 tons of coal |
| Sister ships |
Hai Nju , |
SMS Taku (ex. Chinese Hai Jing ( sea eagle )) was a Chinese destroyer built near Schichauand later a torpedo boat of the Imperial Navy . It was used as part of the East Asia Squadron from 1902 to 1913 as part of the German gunboat policy on the Chinese coast and on the inner-Chinese rivers.
use
The boat was originally used as the Hai Jing type ship by four destroyers of the Imperial Chinese Navy ordered from Schichau.
Occupation of the Chinese boats
During the Boxer Rebellion in China, the eight intervention powers demanded the evacuation of the Taku forts in front of Tianjin , then mostly called Tientsin, by June 17, in order to safely charge their relief forces for the embassies that had been besieged in Beijing since the beginning of June and to supply further troops sent to Beijing 1900, 2 a.m. in order to be able to carry out military operations without Chinese control.
The forts occupied by government troops began shelling the prepared gunboats of the Allies at 0.50 a.m., who accepted the fight. They were the British Algerine , the German SMS Iltis , the Russian Bobr , the French Lion , the Russian Korejez , who was badly hit by the first volley, and Giljak .
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The British commander in chief saw in the Hai Jing and her sister ships, which were close to the intervention forces, a significant threat to his considerably slower ships. He therefore had the four modern destroyers built in Germany manned by the British destroyers HMS Fame (D-class, built in 1896 Thornycroft, 355 t) and Whiting (C-class, built in 1896 Palmers, 360 t, under Roger Keyes ) . The Chinese put up little resistance, fled and left their ships in the hands of the British. A few days later they handed over three of the boats to the Russian, French and German navies.
The attack on the Taku forts, which until then had not resisted the Allied landings, led the Chinese government to instruct the army to resist the actions of foreign powers on Chinese soil.
Distribution of the boats to the intervention powers
The four ships were distributed among the international intervention forces and were initially all named Taku :
- Hai Jing , building no. 608, to Germany SMS Taku , after grounding on December 30, 1913, out of service,
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Hai Nju , building no. 609, to France Takou ,
in Saigon since May 13, 1901 , stranded off the coast of Vietnam near Poulo Condor Island on February 22, 1911, deleted as irreparable in September, -
Hai Hola , building no. 610, to Russia first Taku ("Таку"),
fastest Russian torpedo boat, from 1901 renamed Leitenant Burakov ("Лейтенант Бураков") after the artillery officer of the gunboat Korejez who fell before Taku , mainly as a communications agent from the Russian-Japanese war enclosed Port Arthur used
July 26th 1904 before Port Arthur sunk by Japanese forces
and
- Hai Lung , building no. 611, sold for scrapping to Great Britain HMS Taku , October 26, 1916.
Use of the SMS Taku of the Imperial Navy
The baptism as Taku of the Imperial Navy took place on December 6, 1900, the commissioning for the German East Asian cruiser squadron on July 14, 1902. In addition to the Taku , the squadron also had a second torpedo boat, which was initially launched in 1900 with two sister ships as part of the reinforcements The modern boat SMS S 90 moved to China during the Boxer Rebellion .
The torpedo boats were generally used from the Tsingtau base in the vicinity of the German protected area, in Chinese coastal waters but occasionally also on inner-Chinese rivers. The Taku stranded on October 22, 1913 on the so-called horseshoe reef in Kiautschou Bay and was badly damaged. It was decommissioned on December 30, 1913 due to lack of repairability.
On June 13, 1914 was Taku deleted from the list of warships and on 28 September 1914 - just as the disarmed and decommissioned gunboats Cormoran , Iltis and Luchs and the little minelayer Lauting - in the port of Qingdao scuttled to a seizure by Japan to prevent. The fate of the wreck is still unknown.
See also
literature
- Taku. In: Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Mundus, Ratingen, Vol. VII, p. 88. (One-volume reprint of the seven-volume original edition: Koehler, Herford 1979ff.,)
- Cord Eberspächer: The German Yangtze Patrol. German gunboat policy in China in the age of imperialism 1900-1914. Bochum 2004.
Web links
- The Shark Hola class at worldnavalships.com
- The Taku in dry dock (location and time unknown)
- The Hai Lung Class Destroyers ( Memento from July 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (eng.)
- SMS Taku on Kreuzergeschwader.de
- S 90 on Kreuzergeschwader.de
Individual references / comments
- ↑ only the American representative did not want to take part, since he was not authorized to conduct an act of war against China
- ↑ image of the Lion ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Image of Giljak ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
