SMS Tiger (1860)

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Ship data flag  Prussia North German Confederation German Empire     Ship type Gunboat class Hunter- class Shipyard Zieske , Szczecin building-costs 48,500 thalers Launch February 14, 1860 Commissioning March 3, 1864 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 Tiger 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 Tiger was commissioned from the Zieske shipyard in Szczecin in the middle of 1859 . After construction began in the same year, the ship was launched on February 14, 1864, injuring several spectators who were too close to the departing ship. After its completion, the Tiger was transferred to the gunboat base on Dänholm and mothballed there.

The ship came into active use only with the outbreak of the German-Danish War . It entered service on March 3, 1864 and was assigned to the 2nd  Flotilla Division. The Tiger took part in various missions, but without being involved in combat operations, and was decommissioned after the end of the war on October 14th.

The second mission began on April 3, 1866. Eight days later, the Tiger was relocated to Kiel , but due to the mobilization of the navy ordered because of the imminent war against Austria , it was dispatched to the North Sea on May 12 . After a march around Jutland , the gunboat met other ships on the Elbe under the leadership of the Armininus and, after the outbreak of war, participated in the transfer of around 13,500 infantry , artillery and cavalry across the Elbe near Altona . On June 17, abandoned beach batteries near Brunshausen , the old Hanoverian Elbe customs station , were rendered unusable by the landing corps of the Tiger , Arminius and Cyclop . The Tiger was then ordered together with her sister ship Wolf to the Ems estuary , where both had to occupy the Hanoverian forts located there . It was also the Queen Mary , the private yacht of King George V , captured and after Geestemünde brought.

After the end of the war, the Tiger was the first Prussian warship to call at several East Frisian ports and was then stationed as a watch ship off Altona. In September 1866 the ship was ordered back to Kiel and finally decommissioned on January 7, 1867 in Stralsund . It was not until July 24, 1870 that the gunboat was reactivated for the war against France and initially used in the Rügen area. From August 2nd, the Tiger was used to guard the harbor barrier near Friedrichsort , without being involved in combat missions. On April 29, 1871, the ship was finally decommissioned.

In 1872 the Tiger was overhauled in Kiel. Among other things, the rigging was completely removed except for the main mast, which remained on board as a signal mast, and the previous armament was replaced by a 15 cm  L / 22 ring cannon . Redesigned in this way, the ship was briefly put back into service on August 22, 1872 and transferred to Wilhelmshaven , where it was disarmed.

From March 3, 1874, the Tiger was used as a tender for the artillery training ship Renown . During the winter of 1874/75, the ship received the better-preserved boiler system of the Hyena in order to continue to be used as a tender in the following two years.

Whereabouts

The Tiger has been deleted from the list of warships on January 9, 1877, and as mines barge used up in Wilhelmshaven. The gunboat Iltis , launched in 1878, was built as a replacement .

Commanders

March 1864	Ensign to the sea copper
March to April 1864	Lieutenant to the sea 2nd class Heinrich Kühne
April 14th to October 14th 1864	Ensign at sea / lieutenant at sea 2nd class / lieutenant at sea Matthesen
April 3 to May 1866	Second lieutenant to the sea Glomsda
May to November 1866	Lieutenant to the sea Alfred Stenzel
November 1866	Second lieutenant to the sea Glomsda
November 1866 to January 7, 1867	Lieutenant to the Sea Rohr von Hallerstein
July 24, 1870 to April 29, 1871	Lieutenant for the Sea August Thomsen
August 22nd to September 9th, 1872	Lieutenant Kuhn
March 3 to April 1874	Unterleutnant zur See Bröker
April to September 1874	Lieutenant to the sea Fritz Rötger
September 24th to October 24th, 1874	Unterleutnant zur See Bröker
April 1 to September 29, 1875	Lieutenant to the sea Hermann Kirchhoff
April 1 to August 16, 1875	Lieutenant to the sea Alfred Gruner

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. 232 f .

Footnotes

1. ^ Mirko Graetz: From Helgoland to Agadir - Combat missions of Prussian and German warships before 1914 , 2nd exp. Edition, Lulu Enterprises Inc., Morrisville, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-2130-2 , pp. 43-44.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.