Gunboat built c1870 Imperial Yard Danzig. Launched March 1871. Comm 1 Dec 1872. 774tn. Engine 500ihp. One shaft hoisting screw 10.5knts. Arm two 15mm two 150m guns.
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Albatross
Gunboat built c1870 Imperial Yard Danzig. Launched March 1871. Comm 1 Dec 1872. 774tn. Engine 500ihp. One shaft hoisting screw 10.5knts. Arm two 15mm two 150m guns.
Palau SG59 SSS Ency.
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Re: Albatross 1871
She was a built as a wooden hulled three-masted gunboat by the Kaiserliche Werft in Danzig for the Imperial German Navy.
1869 keel laid down.
11 July 1871 launched as the SMS ALBATROSS. One sister the NAUTILUS. One the stamp is given that she is the ALBATROS but the correct German name is ALBATROSS.
Displacement 713 ton standard, 786 ton full load, dim. 56.95 x 8.32 x 3.75m. (draught), length bpp. 52.21m.
Powered by two 1-cyl. expansion steam engine, 491 ihp, one hoisting screw, speed 10.5 knots under steam power.
Armament: 2 – 15cm and 2 – 12cm guns, from 1882 increased with 2 – 3.7 inch- revolver cannons.
Barquentine rigged.
Copper sheathed below the waterline.
Crew 103.
Trials between 23 December 1871 and 24 February 1872. The two vessels were intended for colonial service.
First stationed in the West Indies from 1872/73 thereafter in Brazil, Argentina. 1874/75 Spanish Civil War. 1877 in the Levant, 1878 China, Japan and Hawaii. 1879//80 Samoa, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand
1880/1882 Repaired and modernised at Kiel, rerigged in a schooner (as seen on stamp), sail area 710m². Received new boilers.
01 April 1882 till 17 October 1888 again stationed overseas, first South America, 1884-87 Samoa.
1889 till 1898 mostly during the summer months used as a surveying vessel in the North Sea.
09 January 1899 decommissioned and sold to Gebr. Neugebauer in Hamburg with the intention that she would be resold to South America, but the sale did not happen, where after she was sold on Ihms in Kiel and rebuilt in a collier.
10 October 1903 sold to L. Freund, Hamburg.
20 June 1905 sold to Bugsir, Hamburg, which used her as a collier
Thereafter her career is vague, some sources give that she during a storm foundered off Cuxhaven in 1906, others give till 1911/14 still the skippers name.
Palau 1984 40c sg59. Scott?
Source: Schiffe und Seefahrt, Enzyklopadie der maritimen philately (Navicula).
1869 keel laid down.
11 July 1871 launched as the SMS ALBATROSS. One sister the NAUTILUS. One the stamp is given that she is the ALBATROS but the correct German name is ALBATROSS.
Displacement 713 ton standard, 786 ton full load, dim. 56.95 x 8.32 x 3.75m. (draught), length bpp. 52.21m.
Powered by two 1-cyl. expansion steam engine, 491 ihp, one hoisting screw, speed 10.5 knots under steam power.
Armament: 2 – 15cm and 2 – 12cm guns, from 1882 increased with 2 – 3.7 inch- revolver cannons.
Barquentine rigged.
Copper sheathed below the waterline.
Crew 103.
Trials between 23 December 1871 and 24 February 1872. The two vessels were intended for colonial service.
First stationed in the West Indies from 1872/73 thereafter in Brazil, Argentina. 1874/75 Spanish Civil War. 1877 in the Levant, 1878 China, Japan and Hawaii. 1879//80 Samoa, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand
1880/1882 Repaired and modernised at Kiel, rerigged in a schooner (as seen on stamp), sail area 710m². Received new boilers.
01 April 1882 till 17 October 1888 again stationed overseas, first South America, 1884-87 Samoa.
1889 till 1898 mostly during the summer months used as a surveying vessel in the North Sea.
09 January 1899 decommissioned and sold to Gebr. Neugebauer in Hamburg with the intention that she would be resold to South America, but the sale did not happen, where after she was sold on Ihms in Kiel and rebuilt in a collier.
10 October 1903 sold to L. Freund, Hamburg.
20 June 1905 sold to Bugsir, Hamburg, which used her as a collier
Thereafter her career is vague, some sources give that she during a storm foundered off Cuxhaven in 1906, others give till 1911/14 still the skippers name.
Palau 1984 40c sg59. Scott?
Source: Schiffe und Seefahrt, Enzyklopadie der maritimen philately (Navicula).
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