Scorpion (ship, 1884)
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The Scorpion was the fifth ship of the Wespe class , a class of eleven armored cannon boats of the Imperial Navy , which was designed for the defense of the German North and Baltic Sea coasts.
Construction and service time
The Scorpion was like her sister ships and from the Bremen shipyard AG Weser built. Work on the ship began in July 1876. As the last unit in its class, it received armor from British production instead of the originally planned Dillinger make, which was not yet available in sufficient quality. The ship with the household name Neubau Panzerfahrzeug E was launched on May 19, 1877.
After the completion of the ship, it was not until September 5, 1884 that the Scorpion was put into service for the first time. She was subordinate to the naval station of the North Sea and took part in exercises on the Outer Jade , which lasted until October 8. Then she was taken out of service again. It was not until July 13, 1895 that the Scorpion was activated again to be transferred from Wilhelmshaven to Danzig .
On August 3, 1897, the entire Panzerkanonenboots division, which also included Crocodill , Natter and the flagship Mücke , was activated to take part in the autumn maneuvers of the fleet after unit exercises, which again undertook a training attack on the Jade Estuary. After completing the exercises, the Scorpion was taken out of service on October 1st.
A year later, she replaced her sister ship Mücke as the division's active parent ship. Their service began with practice drives off the coast of East Prussia , which lasted until November 11, 1898. In the following year, the Scorpion drove from June 6th to September 15th among other things in the association of the training fleet.
After joint exercises, Scorpion and Natter were present on June 16, 1900 at the opening of the Elbe-Trave Canal , which took place in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II , to officially represent the Navy. The dispatch of ships of the line of the Brandenburg class due to the unrest in China ultimately led to a shortage of operational warships at home. Therefore, mosquitoes and crocodiles were activated again . On July 27, the association met for two months to carry out joint maneuvers. After its completion, the Scorpion was taken out of service for the last time and was from then on at the Imperial Shipyard Danzig .
Whereabouts
On March 18, 1911, the Scorpion was deleted from the list of warships and then used as a floating shooting range in the torpedo workshop in Flensburg until 1918 . After it was sold on August 3, 1919 at a price of 68,000 marks , it was used as a floating scrapping workshop, only to be dismantled itself in 1924.
Commanders
| September 5 to October 8, 1884 | Lieutenant Valette |
| July 13 to August 1, 1895 | Lieutenant Erckenbrecht |
| August 3 to October 1, 1897 | Captain Friedrich Musculus |
| October 1, 1898 to September 1899 | Corvette Captain Deubel |
| October 1899 to September 24, 1900 | Corvette Captain Neitzke |
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. 150 .