Salamander (ship, 1883)
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The Salamander was the ninth ship of the Wespe class , a class of eleven armored cannon boats of the Imperial Navy , which was constructed for the defense of the German North and Baltic Sea coasts.
Construction and service time
The salamander was, like her sister ships on the Bremen shipyard AG Weser built. Work on the ship began in 1879. It was launched on January 6, 1880, and on October 11, 1880, the ship was handed over to the Navy.
The Salamander was first put into service on September 4, 1883 for test drives that lasted five days. The first active use took place in 1885. Put into service on August 20, the ship belonged to a division formed together with the sister ships Wespe , Viper and Mücke , which took part in fleet exercises. After its end, the Salamander was decommissioned on September 14th, as was customary at the time, and was then part of the reserve division of the North Sea.
In 1886 it was put into service from May 11 to June 9 for association exercises together with the flagship Mücke as well as the Viper and the Camaeleon . In the years 1887 to 1889, the ship was used together with the flotilla for the autumn maneuvers of the fleet in August and September , as was the case in 1891. Only in 1890 were only maneuvers carried out in association.
Whereabouts
The salamander was not reactivated after 1891 and remained in reserve until 1909. On June 28, 1909, she was struck from the list of warships and sold to Düsseldorf for scrapping a year later for 52,000 marks . On the transfer voyage, the ship got caught in a heavy storm and stranded off the Dutch coast about 1 nm south of Castricum-aan-Zee at the position 52 ° 33 '6.5 " N , 4 ° 36" 11.7 " E . The wreck, which was broken in two, withstood several attempts to rescue it shortly after it was stranded and after the Second World War. In 1936 the superstructure was demolished, the hull remained at the stranding point. It is easy to see on satellite photos and should also be visible from the beach in calm weather and very low water levels. The wreck is marked as a danger zone in summer.
Commanders
| September 4-9, 1883 | Lieutenant Eugen Wallis |
| August 20 to September 14, 1885 | Lieutenant to the Sea Coßmann |
| May 11th to June 9th, 1886 | Captain Lieutenant Baron von Sohlern |
| August 16 to September 14, 1887 | unknown |
| August 15 to September 15, 1888 | Lieutenant Goecke |
| August 13 to September 11, 1889 | Captain Friedrich Vüllers |
| August 13 to September 20, 1890 | Captain Paul Walther |
| August 4 to September 22, 1891 | Captain Gerhard Meyer |
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. 164 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. 102 .
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.
- ↑ The rank corresponds to a first lieutenant at sea.