SMS Undine (ship, 1869)
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| Construction data | |
| Shipyard | Royal Shipyard Gdansk |
| Keel laying | 1869 |
| Launch | December 8, 1869 |
| completion | May 21, 1871 |
| Whereabouts | October 28, 1884 stranded on the North Jutian coast |
| Technical specifications | |
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Measurement (volume) |
310 GRT 194 NRT |
| Displacement | Construction: 598 t , maximum: 624 t |
| length | KWL : 35.82 m, over all: 41.92 m |
| width | 10.2 m |
| Draft | 4.3 m |
| Armament | 8 × 24 pounders after conversion: 6 × 8 cm L / 20 Rk |
| Rigging | brig |
| Sail area | 1035 m² |
| Construction | Cross- frame crawler construction |
| speed | 10 kn |
| crew | 8 officers and 142 men |
The SMS Undine was a brig of the Royal Prussian and Imperial German Navy , which was used as a training ship from 1871 to 1884. The Undine was lost at the end of October 1884 while leaving for a training trip after circumnavigating Skagen in a hurricane due to stranding off the Jutian coast.
History of Undine
In 1868, a brig was ordered from the Royal Shipyard in Danzig as the first new building for the North German Confederation to replace the old schooner Hela . The brig Undine was launched in 1869 at the Royal Shipyard in Danzig. Delayed by the Franco-Prussian War , she was only put into service on May 21, 1871 as a training ship for cabin boys and used alongside the Briggs Rover and Musquito, acquired from Great Britain in 1862, and the sailing frigate Niobe .
On July 12, 1871 , the Undine made her first trip abroad via English, Spanish and Portuguese ports to the Cape Verde Islands , from where she returned to Kiel on May 1, 1872. A similar journey was carried out in 1872/1873. After decommissioning and overhaul, the Undine carried out a large training voyage to Rio de Janeiro and back via West Indian and US ports from July 14, 1874 to September 14, 1875 . The commandant of the training ship on this voyage was Korvettenkapitän Köster , later the first Grand Admiral of the Imperial Navy.
In 1876 the Undine's practice runs only extended as far as the Norwegian North Sea coast. That year, the ship's commanding officer was Korvettenkapitän Hollmann , who was also chief of the central department of the Imperial Admiralty and later, from April 1890, State Secretary of the Reichsmarinamt and predecessor of Alfred Tirpitz .
After a year of maintenance, the Undine only made trips in the Baltic Sea in 1878 and 1879, and after another year of rest in 1881, 1882 and 1884, again only summer training trips in the Baltic Sea. In the autumn of 1884, contrary to the original intention, the ship was not decommissioned as in previous years, but was used for a large training voyage to the Atlantic Islands.
The end of the undine
On October 28, 1884, she was stranded under the command of Corvette Captain Victor Cochius during a hurricane on the North Jutian coast. The brig was on a trip abroad to Lisbon with 90 cabin boys and four-year-old volunteers. The position of the stranding was 56 ° 48 ' N , 8 ° 14' O . In the accident, a sailor went overboard while trying in vain to cut the mainmast after being stranded. All other crew members could be saved. The Danish sea rescue did not succeed in reaching the stranded brig with a lifeboat. However, the crew was rescued with a newly developed missile device and a rescue chair attached to the line that had been fired from the victim .
On November 8, 1884, the rescued crew put the lying brig Rover back into service. With the ship, which had only been used in the Baltic Sea in summer for years, the training voyage was continued on November 13th, which led to the Cape Verde Islands and from which the Rover returned to Kiel on May 8th, 1885 .
literature
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945 Volume 1 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford,