S.M.S. Schneewittchen (1888)

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Schneewittchen (1888)
Builder: Danzig NYd[1]
Laid down: 1888[2]
Launched: 20 December, 1888[3]
Commissioned: 10 October, 1889[4]
Stricken: 12 September, 1920[5]
Sold: 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up
Schneewittchen, originally named A, was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1889.

Construction

Her engines were taken from the salvaged V 3.[7]

Service

A was commissioned on 10 October, 1889 for service as a torpedo training boat. Disarmed in 1892, A was renamed Schneewittchen on 30 January, 1899 and became a station yacht in the Baltic. Subsequently she was employed as a guard ship at Kiel. Schneewittchen was stricken on 21 September 1920 and broken up the next year at Kiel after being sold for 80,000 GM.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Built

  • Two 37mm machine guns
  • Three 35cm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

[9]

After c. 1892

  • Nil

[10]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  10. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.

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).
  • 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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