SMS Tiger (1899)
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type | Gunboat | |
| Ship class | Polecat class | |
| Construction designation: | Replacement wolf | |
| Builder: | Imperial shipyard in Gdansk | |
| Keel laying : | 1898 | |
| Launch : | August 15, 1899 | |
| Completion: | April 3, 1900 | |
| Building-costs: | 1.665 million marks | |
| Sister ships | ||
| SMS Iltis , SMS Jaguar , SMS Luchs , SMS Panther , SMS Eber | ||
| Ship dimensions | ||
| Measurement: | 758 BRT 495 NRT |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 894 t Maximum: 1,108 t |
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| Length of the waterline : Length over all: |
L HCS = 63.9 m L oa = 65.2 m |
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| Width: | 9.1 m | |
| Draft : | 3.56-3.74 m | |
| Side height : | 4.71-4.86 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Boiler system : | 4 Thornycroft coal -fired boilers |
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| Machinery: | 2 standing 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines | |
| Number of propellers: | 2 three-leaf 2.6 m | |
| Shaft speed: | 163 / min | |
| Drive power: | 1,372 PSi | |
| Speed: | 14 kn (test drive: 14.8 kn) |
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| Driving range : | 2,580 nm at 9 kn | |
| Fuel supply: | 165–203 tons of coal | |
| Crew: | 9 officers and 121 men | |
| Armament | ||
| Sea target guns: | 2 Sk - 10.5 cm L / 40 482 shots, 122 hm |
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| Revolver cannons : | 6 × 3.7 cm 9000 shots |
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| Whereabouts | ||
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at position 36 ° 3 ′ N , 120 ° 16 ′ E before Kiautschou gave up |
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SMS Tiger was one of six Iltis- class gunboats of the Imperial Navy that had been specially built for service in the overseas colonies.
The first two boats in the class, SMS Iltis and SMS Jaguar , had four 8.8 cm guns; the following four sister ships were instead equipped with two 10.5 cm fast-loading cannons each. In order to increase their radius of action, the boats were rigged with sails. Despite their small size, they were extremely seaworthy and maneuverable.
The Tiger was 65.2 m long and 9.1 m wide, had a 3.5 m draft and displaced a maximum of 1,108 tons. In addition to her two 4-inch guns, she carried six 3-inch automatic cannons. Two triple expansion machines gave her a top speed of 14 knots. The range of action under steam was 3,400 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 9 knots; however, by using the sails on longer journeys, this could be expanded considerably. The crew consisted of 130 men.
Station service
The Tiger was launched on August 15, 1899 at the Imperial Shipyard in Danzig and was put into service on April 3, 1900. After trial and training trips until the end of May, she was set off for East Asia on June 17, 1900. At times she marched together with the great cruiser SMS Fürst Bismarck . On the way she ran aground on July 21st in coal off the island of Perim at the southern exit of the Red Sea . It was not released until two days later and steamed to Hong Kong , where it was repaired from August 30th to September 12th. She finally reached Tsingtau on October 22nd . Initially responsible for the ports on the Yellow Sea , she also served on the Yangtze River like her sister ships and visited ports in Korea and Japan.
In 1902, in January, she served the squadron chief of the East Asia Squadron on a visit to King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Bangkok and was mainly active in the southern area. When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, she was stationed in front of Tschemulpo in order to evacuate German nationals if necessary. On December 15, 1905, she brought the representative of the German Reich in Korea from Tschemulpo, then she went to Shanghai for the turn of the year 1905/06. Because of existing unrest, she formed a landing corps with ships from other nations to protect the foreign settlements . The commander, Kapitänleutnant Moritz Deimling, died on November 20, 1905 in the unrest in Shanghai. He was posthumously appointed corvette captain. (His grave can be found in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe). In June 1907, the head of the squadron, Rear Admiral Carl von Coerper , took the small cruiser Leipzig , the Tiger and the torpedo boat S 90 up the Yangtze to find out about German economic interests there.
The Tiger changed frequently in the station area, occasionally also carried out surveying work and accompanied the Fürst Bismarck with the squadron chief on two trips through the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of 1907 and 1909.
When the Chinese Revolution broke out in 1911, the Tiger was off Chongqing and ran to Hankau , where the chief of the cruiser squadron concentrated his forces. The tiger soon went on to Nanjing and Tsingtau. She spent the first four months of 1912 in the quieter southern area, followed by missions in the north and on the Yangtze.
In January 1914, the Tiger took part in a squadron trip to Thailand and through Indonesian and Filipino waters.
Outbreak of war
Last used before Tientsin , the Tiger was back in Tsingtau since July 4, 1914 and was supposed to go to the Yangtze. Because of the crisis in Europe she was withheld. The crew and weapons were intended for equipping an auxiliary cruiser. When the Reichspoststampfer Prinz Eitel Friedrich of the North German Lloyd arrived at the beginning of August 1914 , the armament of the boat on the Prinz Eitel Friedrich was carried out and the latter equipped with it and with most of the crew of the Tiger to become an auxiliary cruiser. The sister ship SMS Luchs surrendered weapons and crew to the same extent. The commandant of the auxiliary cruiser was the previous commander of the Luchs , Korvettenkapitän Thierichens.
The Tiger itself was sunk by its remaining crew on September 29, 1914, during the siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese, together with the sister ships Iltis and Luchs and the old gunboat SMS Cormoran , in order not to let it fall into enemy hands.
literature
- Hildebrand, Hans H .: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Koehler's publishing company, Herford,
| Commanders | |
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| April 1900 | Corvette Captain Xaver von Mittelstaedt (1860–1937) |
| May 1902 | Corvette Captain Friedrich Schrader (1865–1937) |
| September 1903 | Lieutenant Captain Moritz Deimling (1875–1905) promoted to Corvette Captain |
| November 1905 | Corvette Captain Hans von Abeken (1867-19 ??) |
| November 1906 | Corvette Captain Walter von Koß |
| June 1908 | Corvette Captain Richard Ackermann (1869–1930) 1914-18 Commander SMS Goeben |
| May 1910 | Corvette Captain Gustav Luppe (1872-19 ??) |
| May 1912 | Corvette Captain Oskar Böcker (1875–1934) |
| June 1914 | Corvette Captain Karl von Bodecker (1875–1957) |
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