SMS Gneisenau (1879)

SMS Gneisenau was a Covered Corvette the Bismarck class of the German Imperial Navy. The six ships of the class were three-masted, full-rigged sailing ships rigged as ungepanzertem with an iron hull and a steam engine as an additional drive. They were reclassified to 1884 cruiser frigates.

History

The ship was put into service in 1880 and was used to train the future officers as cadets training ship. To this end, it made ​​several trips abroad. 1884 should bring the German Consul-General Gerhard Rohlfs via Cape Town to Zanzibar and put on the way the Santa Lucia Bay under imperial protection, the Gneisenau. The order to stop but was withdrawn when it became known that the bay was part of the British sphere of interest. 1885, said to have been in Sydney to cases of desertion. On December 16, 1900, the Gneisenau sank in a storm after the failure of the machine off the port of Malaga in Spain, after she had run onto the pier. 40 of the crew, including the captain and the first officer arrived, killed.

These were, inter alia, to: Seaman Adam Weiss, born in Bleiweisshof on 24 December 1878 cabin boy Otto Becker, born in Gdansk on September 7, 1884 Feuermeistersmaat Herwarth peace, born in New Churches on 30 April 1875 heater Karl Werchner, born in Charlottenburg on 21 September 1879 Zimmermann guest Chris pot Detlefsen, born in North Husum on 3 December 1878 cabin boy Flamin Sperl, born in Bamberg on 23 January 1883 machinist Carl seer, born in Gerlachsheim on November 7, 1872 sailor Wilhelm Meyer, born in Käseburg on 14 August 1879, the ship's boy Edward Heisel, born in Flensburg on 25 February 1885 cabin boy William Petz, born in Schönberg New Strelitz, cabin boy Paul Sharp, born in Duisburg on 10 March 1883, as a ship's boy Gustav Scheck, born in Bargstedterfeld 1882 cabin boy Carl Johansson, born in Schwerin, cabin boy Richard Groll, born in Guben on July 24, 1882

The graves are located in the English cemetery in Malaga,