SMS Zieten
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type | 1st class torpedo vehicle | |
| Ship class | Single ship | |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd., London | |
| Keel laying : | 1875 | |
| Launch : | March 9, 1876 | |
| Completion: | 1876 | |
| Building-costs: | 1.635 million gold marks | |
| Ship dimensions | ||
| Measurement: | 716 BRT 322 NRT |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 1,001 t Maximum: 1,170 t |
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| Length: |
KWL : 69.5 m over all: 79.4 m |
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| Width: | 8.56 m | |
| Draft : | 3.8-4.63 m | |
| Side height : | 5.64 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Rigging : | 2 mast schooner | |
| Sail area : | 355 m² | |
| Boiler system : | 6 cylinder boilers | |
| Machinery: | 2 horizontal 2-cylinder double expansion steam engines |
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| Number of propellers: | 2 three-leaf, Ø 3.05 m (2.75 m) | |
| Shaft speed: | 171 / min | |
| Drive power: | 1,807 PSi | |
| Speed: | 16 kn | |
| Driving range: | 1,770 nm at 9 kn | |
| Fuel supply: | 130 tons of coal | |
| Crew: | 7 officers and 88–104 men | |
| Armament | ||
| Sea target guns: | 6 - SK 5.0 cm L / 40 864 shots, 62 hm |
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Torpedo tubes Ø 15 inches (38.1 cm): |
2 (1 each in bow and stern) | |
| Mine capacity : | 49 | |
| Whereabouts | ||
| Cancellation: December 6, 1919 Sale: April 18, 1921 for 655,000 marks scrapped in Wilhelmshaven |
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SMS Zieten was a first class torpedo vehicle , later an Aviso and fisheries protection ship of the former Imperial Navy . The ship was named after the Prussian hussar general Hans Joachim von Zieten ("Zieten from the bush").
Construction and technical data
The Zieten was one of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. Iron ship built in London with iron crossbars and eight compartments. It was 79.4 m long, 8.56 m wide and had a draft of 3.8–4.63 m. Fully equipped, it weighed 1170 tons and was measured at 716 GRT. The crew consisted of six to seven officers and between 90 and 104 men.
career
The Zieten served until 1880 as a torpedo vehicle for testing newly developed torpedoes. From May 1878, your commandant was the lieutenant captain and later Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz , who had been responsible for the organization of the new torpedo weapon since 1877. On July 28, 1880 sank Tirpitz with the Zieten , in the presence of Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia , the old steam frigate SMS Barbarossa with a sharp torpedo to demonstrate the effect of the new weapon.
In 1881 the Zieten was converted into an Aviso. When the security of Western foreigners was threatened after the bombardment of the Egyptian city of Alexandria by British warships in July 1882, the Zieten was dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea to replace the German gunboats Habicht und Möwe , which were stationed there and protect German and Austrian citizens in Egypt Had brought security. Then the ship was used in the North and Baltic Seas . From 1897, the Zieten , as the successor to the Meteor , served in fishery protection in the North Sea and North Atlantic, protecting, supervising and supplying German fishing vessels and bringing foreign fishing vessels into German territorial waters several times.
During the First World War , the ship was assigned to the Jade / Weser coastal defense division.
The End
The Zieten was taken out of service in 1919 and scrapped in Wilhelmshaven in 1921 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Koch: Albrecht von Stosch as head of the Admiralty: Sketches from the files . Mittler and Son, Berlin 1903, p. 40
- ↑ See e.g. B. From the travel reports SMS Zieten, fishing cruiser, in the North Sea . (1897)