SMS Wolf (1860)

**wolf**
	The identical fox
Ship data
flag	Prussia North German Confederation German Empire; ;
Ship type	Gunboat
class	Hunter- class
Shipyard	Liegnitz , Szczecin
building-costs	48,400 thalers
Launch	April 29, 1860
Commissioning	February 21, 1864
Removal from the ship register	September 26, 1875
Whereabouts	Wrecked in 1884
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 Wolf 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 Wolf was commissioned from the Liegnitz shipyard in Szczecin in mid-1859 and was launched on April 29, 1860 as the last ship in her class. After completion in the autumn of 1860, the ship was transferred to the gunboat base on Dänholm , where it was dismantled and towed .

Only on February 21, 1864, the Wolf was first put into service and the III. Flotilla division with which she took part in the German-Danish War . On July 3, the ship got into a battle with Danish ships near Hiddensee . After the end of the war it was decommissioned on September 23rd.

On April 3, 1866, the Wolf was activated again to operate as a survey ship on the North Sea coast . Together with the Loreley , the gunboat started the march to Wilhelmshaven on April 22nd , which was designated as the main harbor for the Wolf . The surveying work was interrupted when the war against Austria broke out . For the war, the Wolf was assigned to a flotilla led by the Arminius , but did not take part in any operations. On June 24, the ship hauled four barges loaded with captured Hanoverian weapons from Brunshausen to Altona .

After the end of the military actions against Austria and Hanover, Wolf continued its surveying work until it was decommissioned on November 10, 1866 in Geestemünde . After the winter, the work continued from April 24th to October 26th, 1867 and should continue into 1868. After reactivation on April 21, 1868, the Wolf had to be taken out of service after 15 days, as the financial resources of the Navy were cut by the Prussian state parliament and the number of active ships had to be reduced.

From June 1, 1870, the Wolf replaced the Prinz Adalbert as a station ship from Altona . With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , the gunboat was used in the outpost service on the Jade Estuary without being involved in combat operations. From March 1871, it continued the surveying work and was decommissioned on June 19. In the summer of 1872, the Wolf was briefly used as a tender for the artillery training ship Renown and should finally be transferred to Kiel in December. However, due to heavy ice drift, this was postponed until April 1873.

Whereabouts

The Wolf was removed from the list of warships on September 26, 1875 and used as a mine prahm in Kiel. On August 4, 1884, the hull was used as a target ship for the torpedo test ship Blücher and sunk by a sharp torpedo. It was then lifted again and scrapped.

Commanders

February 21 to May 1864	Ensign to the Sea of Treuenfeld
May 1864	Ensign to the sea Friedrich von Hollmann
May to September 23, 1864	Lieutenant at sea Graf von Pfeil
April 1866	Unterleutnant zur See Conrad Dietert
April to October 1866	Lieutenant Zembsch
October to November 10, 1866	Unterleutnant zur See Dietert
April 24 to October 26, 1867	Lieutenant to the Sea Matthesen
April 21 to May 6, 1868	Lieutenant to the sea Rudolf Hoffmann
June 1 to September 1870	Lieutenant to the Sea Koebcke
September 15, 1870 to June 19, 1871	Unterleutnant zur See / Leutnant zur See Franz Strauch
August 1872	unknown
December 11th to 31st, 1872	Lieutenant Weddig
April 2nd to May 2nd 1873	Lieutenant to the sea, Count von Haugwitz

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 8 : Ship biographies from Undine to Zieten . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 101 f .

Footnotes

↑ 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.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.

[1] 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.

[LzS-2] The rank corresponds to a lieutenant at sea.

[OLzS-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.