Stralsund (ship, 1816)
.jpg) Model of the Stralsund in the Danish Navy Museum
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The schooner Stralsund , actually a brigantine , was a warship with its home port Stralsund . The schooner formed the basis for building up the Prussian Navy in the 19th century.
history
Basics for building a navy in Prussia
When Swedish-Pomerania passed from Sweden to Prussia in 1815, six gunnery sloops were also transferred to the Prussian king. At that time, Prussia did not yet have a navy. However, the establishment of such a system has now been promoted. During a review of the six sloops at a Stralsund shipyard , it was found that all six could no longer be repaired or only with unreasonably great expense. On February 10, 1820, they were auctioned in favor of the military treasury for 331 thalers , eight silver groschen and seven pfennigs . Only the cannons were kept.
After the Congress of Vienna and the establishment of the German Confederation , Prussia began very slowly to build up a small coastal fleet. This initially consisted of two formerly Swedish gunboats found in Stralsund and the newly built armed schooner Stralsund . All three vehicles were sold again by 1829 due to lack of usability. It was not until 1837 that the first Prussian naval construction plan existed, which was supported by the then Crown Prince and later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .
construction
The fortress commander of Stralsund, Lieutenant General Hermann von Engelbrechten , as well as the officers transferred from Swedish to Prussian services (despite the fact that Prussia had no navy, they were listed as "naval officers") Diedrich Johann Longé and Henry Murck drove the construction forward . On March 18, 1816 the Stralsund shipbuilder- alterman Joachim Jacob Meyer received the order from Lieutenant General von Engelbrechten to build a cannon sloop, which, unlike the Swedish one, should have a closed upper deck. Only after the keel had been laid did the Prussian War Minister approve this construction on June 19, 1816; on September 13, 1816 it was determined that the ship should carry the name Stralsund . The ship was completed on February 12, 1817.
Longé was called "Königl. Prussia. See-Kapitän ”was entrusted with the test drive, which led from Stralsund via Kolberg , Pillau , Danzig , Memel , Gotland and Bornholm back to Stralsund on May 20, 1817 , where they arrived again on June 16, 1817.
On July 20, 1818, the Stralsund left for Danzig, from where trips as a training ship were undertaken with members of the navigation school there. This trip was the last at sea for the time being.
As a result, the schooner often had to be dismantled in port for financial reasons . So it was rigged up in June 1819 and 1820 solely for demonstration purposes for visits by the king on Rügen or in Stralsund. On August 4, 1821, the schooner was again decked out in the harbor. The long lay times in the port, however, exposed the ship to rot. In 1821 Longé wrote this to the Royal Finance Administration. After examining numerous suggestions for the use of the schooner, it left for Danzig on September 9, 1822, where it was first in the New Fairway and later in the port - again without being used. The navigation school chartered merchant ships for their voyages, and the Navy built their first steam-powered river cannonship in 1823. In 1826 the Stralsund was returned to its home port Stralsund and a "marine depot" was set up there.
In the autumn of 1827, it was discovered at the Stralsund shipyard that the cost of repairing the Stralsund would be equivalent to building a new one, which Longé also suggested. This proposal was never approved. However, in the spring of 1829, the War Ministry offered the schooner to the Artillery Examination Commission for attempts to fire rockets. But since the repair of the hull itself would have been too expensive for this purpose, the ailing schooner was auctioned for scrapping on November 8, 1829 for 1,584 thalers, 20 groschen and seven pfennigs.
The "Stralsund flag"
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On November 28, 1816, the Prussian War Minister announced that the king had opted for a white flag with a black eagle in a straight position and in the previous shape, as well as with the Iron Cross on the upper Lieck. The new war flag was later also carried on the Stralsund customs yacht and the yachts used in the sea post service. The schooner Stralsund was the only warship in the history of the Prussian Navy to fly this flag. It went down in history as the “ Stralsund flag”. Due to some heraldic discrepancies, the flag was changed in 1819 and the flag cloth was given the shape of a double stand.
Technical specifications
- Division into seven departments:
Team strength
The literature does not reveal an exact team size. The possible number of crews can only be inferred from the cabins and from the fact that the initial equipment included 50 hammocks. There were also two cabins, each with a bed, and a cabin for the NCO. Since not all of the hammocks were used or were occupied twice, the number of crews should have been less than fifty men.
literature
- Gröner, Erich / Jung, Dieter / Maass, Martin: The German warships 1815–1945 . tape 1 : Armored ships, ships of the line, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, gunboats . Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 , p. 106 .
- Friends of the Marinemuseum Dänholm eV (ed.): The schooner “Stralsund” and the beginnings of the Prussian Navy . Series of publications by the Danish Navy Museum, No. 2, Stralsund 1992.
Remarks
- ↑ Gröner gives four officers and 40 men, cf. Gröner, Erich: The German warships. Vol. 1, 1982, p. 106.