SMS Blücher (1877)
As a torpedo training ship:
- 4 × 8.0 cm L/25 cannon boat
- 13 × 3.7 cm Rev
- 4 × torpedo tube ∅ 35 cm
- 3 × torpedo tube ∅ 45 cm
The SMS Blücher was the second ship of the Bismarck class of the Imperial Navy. His name was reminiscent of the Prussian Field Marshal von Blücher, who had distinguished himself in the wars of liberation against Napoleon.
History
It was built in 1876-1878 as a cadet training ship of the Imperial Navy under the Baubezeichnung Covered Corvette C, but before its commissioning was converted into a torpedo training ship. The guns were removed and cut the masts. A number of torpedo tubes the diameter of 35 cm and 45 cm, was mounted in the lower cover, the openings lay partly on and partly below the water line. They served the training of crews, NCOs and officers in the torpedo service. The Blücher was stationed in Kiel and undertook training cruises in the Bay of Kiel and Flensburg Fjord. She had a fuel supply of 300 tons of coal a range of 2,380 nautical miles at 9 knots or 1,940 nautical miles at 10 knots.
In November 1907, a boiler explosion occurred on the ship, in which some people died. Shortly thereafter, the ship was decommissioned.
Whereabouts
1908 Blucher 142,000 Mark was sold to a company from Rotterdam, which resold the ship to Vigo, where it was used up a coal.