S.M.S. Kronprinz (1867)

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S.M.S. Kronprinz (1867)
Builder: Samuda Brothers, Poplar[1][2][3]
Laid down: 1 February, 1866[4]
Launched: 6 May, 1867[5]
Commissioned: 19 September, 1867[6]
Stricken: 22 August, 1901[7]
Sold: 3 October, 1921[8]
Fate: Broken up

S.M.S. Kronprinz was an armoured frigate completed for the Prussian Navy in 1867.

Construction

Kronprinz was designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was iron-hulled with both transverse and longitudinal frames with nine watertight compartments and a double bottom running over 43 per cent of the hull. She was barque-rigged and her machinery comprised one two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion engine driving a single two-bladed propeller and powered by eight J. Penn & Sons trunk boilers.[9]

Kronprinz was launched by Samuda Brothers at Poplar on 6 May, 1867 and the remainder of her construction proceeded rapidly. She was ready for commissioning before the year was out.[10]

Service

Kronprinz was commissioned into the fleet on 19 September, 1867. She proved to be an excellent seaboat although her turning radius was large.[11]

Kronprinz carried torpedo nets from 1885 through 1897.[12]

Kronprinz was stricken on 22 August, 1901 and taken to Kiel Dockyard for conversion into a machinery hulk for engineer training. The conversion entailed giving her a covered upper deck, reducing her masts from three to two, and fitting four new boilers (two Thornycroft and two Dürr). She served in this humble role at Kiel for another twenty years until she was sold to Bonn on 3 October, 1921 for 5,000,000M and subsequently broken up in Rendsburg-Audorf.[13][14]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Designed[15][16]

  • Thirty-two 72-pounder bronze rifles

As Commissioned[17][18]

  • Two 210mm/22 caliber guns
  • Fourteen 210/19 caliber guns

After Refit[19][20]

  • Two 210mm/22 caliber hooped guns
  • Fourteen 210/19 caliber guns
  • Six 37mm Hotchkiss revolvers
  • Five 350mm torpedo tubes, twelve torpedoes

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 243.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  3. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 324.
  4. ↑ Dodson. The Kaiser's Battlefleet. p. 178.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  10. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  11. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  13. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 243.
  14. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  15. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 243.
  16. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  17. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 243.
  18. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.
  19. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 243.
  20. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Dodson, Aidan (2016). The Kaiser's Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1870-1918. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing.
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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