SMS Bremse

The mine cruiser SMS Bremse German Imperial Navy was built as a " new mine steamer D" at AG Vulcan Stettin in 1915. He also ran on 11 March 1916 by the stack and he was placed on 1 July 1916 in service.

With regard to the technical data and the use of history, the same applies as for the sister ship SMS Brummer. The machinery consisted of two steam turbines, which were powered by six coal / oil burner boilers and worked on two screws. The built- in Brummer and Bremse turbines were originally intended for the construction of the Russian battlecruiser Navarin, but were seized at the outbreak of war in 1914.

Construction According to PSW were achieved at 47,000 to 28 knots on flat water and with less displacement about 30 kn. Could be stashed away more than 600 tons of coal and 1,000 tons of oil.

History

SMS Bremse was operational from October 1916. In December, she was assigned to the Scouting Division IV, with whom she participated in various operations in the North Sea. Thus, the brake led in January 1917 by a mine company and came on 17 October 1917 along with her sister ship Brummer, against allied convoys between Norway and Scotland before. The British destroyer HMS Strongbow and HMS Mary Rose and nine freighters were sunk. In March 1918, the brakes made ​​a foray into the Skagerrak and Kattegat into that but was unsuccessful. A month later, was a last fleet use, which also remained inconclusive.

On November 3, 1918, the ship was decommissioned in Swinoujscie. Soon after, it had to be manned and transferred to Scapa Flow again. Seven months later, on June 21, 1919, was the commander of the interned German fleet, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, the command to self-absorption. During the day, most of the 74 interned vessels sank to the bottom of Scapa Flow. So also the mine cruiser SMS Bremse.

The wreck was raised in 1929 and scrapped. One of their 15 -inch guns is now at Scapa Flow Visitor Centre at Lyness on Hoy.