S.M.S. Oldenburg (1884)

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S.M.S. Oldenburg (1884)
Builder: AG Vulcan, Stettin[1][2]
Yard Number: 132[3]
Laid down: 1883[4][5]
Launched: 20 December, 1884[6]
Commissioned: 8 April, 1886[7]
Stricken: 13 January, 1912[8]
Sold: 5 May, 1919[9]
Fate: Broken up

S.M.S. Oldenburg was a turret ship completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1886.

Construction

Designed between 1879 and 1881, Oldenburg was steel-hulled except for her stem and stern, which were iron. She had both transvere and longitudinal framing, twelve watertight compartments, and a double bottom extending over 60 percent of her hull. Her machinery comprised two four-cylinder double-expansion engines with two three-bladed propellers driven by eight transverse cylindrical boilers.[10]

Oldenburg was laid down in 1883 as armored ship E and launched on 20 December, 1884 at AG Vulcan's Stettin shipyard.[11]

Service

Oldenburg was commissioned into the fleet on 8 April, 1886.[12]

After 1900 she served as a guard ship and subsequently a harbor ship. She was stricken on 13 January, 1912 and became a target ship. After the Armistice she was released from this duty and was sold on 5 May, 1919 to Hattinger Co. and broken up the same year at Wilhelmshaven.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[14][15]

  • Eight 240mm/30 caliber guns
  • Four 150mm/22 caliber guns
  • Two 87mm/22 caliber guns
  • Six 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Four 350mm torpedo tubes, ten torpedoes

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 246.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 246.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  10. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 8-9.
  11. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  13. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.
  14. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 246.
  15. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 9.

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).
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • 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.


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