Wasp (ship, 1877)
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The Waspe was the type ship of the class named after her of a total 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 wasp was like her sister ships and from the Bremen shipyard AG Weser built. Work on the ship began in May 1875. The planned use of armor from German production was not yet possible because the Dillinger Hütte, which was commissioned with the production, was not yet able to guarantee the required quality of the armor plates. Material from British production had to be used, and delivery turned out to be very cumbersome. The ship was launched on July 6, 1876.
After the ship was completed, it was moved from Bremen to Wilhelmshaven for the installation of the gun. It was there on November 26, 1876, the first commissioning for test drives, which lasted on February 9, 1877. From 24 March to 9 April the same year the gun was on Schillig - Reede tested. It was not until September 20, 1880 that the wasp was used for active service. Until mid-October she carried out exercises together with her sister ship Crocodill . A year later, from September 20 to October 17, 1881, it was used for training purposes.
In 1882 consideration was given to sending some Wasp- class ships to the Mediterranean due to the British-Egyptian conflict , but this was not necessary due to developments in Egypt. The wasp was not used again until August 28th to September 14th, 1885, when exercises took place on the jade together with viper , salamander and mosquito . Then Wespe belonged to the reserve division of the North Sea as a decommissioned auxiliary ship.
The ship was rebuilt from 1892 to 1894. In addition to an armored command tower, the four light guns came on board after two torpedo tubes had been retrofitted in 1883. However, the wasp was not used again.
Whereabouts
Until 1910 the wasp lay in front of the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven . Already deleted from the list of warships last year, she was finally sold to Düsseldorf for 52,000 marks . There, the hull of the ship was used as a barge used.
Commanders
| November 26, 1876 to February 9, 1877 | unknown |
| March 24 to April 9, 1877 | unknown |
| September 20 to October 15, 1880 | Lieutenant Commander Fritz Rötger |
| September 20 to October 17, 1881 | Lieutenant Captain von Raven |
| August 20 to September 14, 1885 | unknown |
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 8 : Ship biographies from Undine to Zieten . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 69 f .
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