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BUSSARD SMS

Post by shipstamps » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:27 pm


She was built under the name NEUBAU C as a type ship of a new class of 6 cruisers—special built for the station service in the German colonies The there already stationed gunboats were too small for their task.
Keel laid down August 1888 on the Kaiserlichen Werft (Imperial Yard) at Gedansk
Launched 23-01-1890 as SMS BUSSARD (buzzard). ---.
Tonnage 1.559 displacement, 1.969 tons maximum, dim. 82.6 x 12.5m, length on waterline 79,6m. draught 5.6m
Steel frames with wooden planking.
Triple expansion steam engines 2.806 ihp., two screws, speed 15.7 knots.
Armament: 8 -10.5 inch old Ring guns. Crew 9 Officers and 152 men.
Trials between 07-10/23-12~1890
01 May 1891 commissioned.

The shake down cruise was via the Mediterranean to Sydney, then to Apia, Samoa.
Thereafter she made many voyages in the German Territories or in the Southsea, sometimes used as a transport for the police forces to suppress native rebellions in the German Territories.
25April1893 Visited Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land (Papua New Guinea) and Hermit Island
14 June1893 Upulu, 27 July1896 Majuro. 'November the Bismarck Archipelago.
Now and then were crewmembers used as forces at shore (August 1894 Apia).
18 November1898 Sailed homeward bound via Morocco.

20 April1899 Decommissioned in Gdansk.
Overhauled on the Kaiserlichen Werft and rerigged from a three-mast schoonerbarque in a two-mast topsailschooner.
26 June1900 Re-commissioned.
10 July 1900 Sailed from Kiel together with four ships-of-the-line of the Brandenburg class for the Far East (Boxer Rebellion).
From 04 September1900 until 26 April1904 a unit of the German cruiser squadron based at Tsingtao.
From 30June1904 stationed on the German East Africa station. Part of the crew used as landings forces during the Maji rebellion (03-08-1904). Three crewmembers killed in this rebellion.
She visited a yard in Capetown for repairs in May 1906, February 1907, Nov. 1908 and Sept 1909 A yard in Durban in May 1908.
Because of the poor condition of the vessel, send quickly home.

12 March1910 De-commissioned at Gdansk.
25 October1912 Discarded from the navy.
1913 Sold for scrapping to Lemwerder (I believe a place in Germany).

Marshall Islands 1989 25c sg 230, scott 230a

Translated from NAVICULA

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