Austro-Hungarian TORPEDO SHIPS

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SMS BLITZ – torpedo ship Laid down: Launched: Take over: 23/02/1888 07/07/1888 26/10/1889 Builder: F. Schichau, Elbing Costs: 565,815 K Sister ships: KOMET, and the METEOR was very similar Displacement: 358.00 t (constr) 420.00 t (full load) 18
Length: 59.0 m (pp) / 58.38 m (wl) / 60.68 m (oa) Beam: 7.42 m Draught: 2.11 m 2.35 m (full load) Change of Draught: 1 cm = 2.556 t Machinery: 1 three-cylinder triple expansion vertical steam engine 2 locomotive-type boilers 1 propeller with 3 blades, diameter: 3.0 m 2 rudders Bunkerage: 104 t coal Endurance: 3,570 nm at 11 kts; 1,513 nm at 16 kts Performance: 2,900 ihp Speed: 21.37 kts at 244 rpm Armament: 2 qf guns, cal: 4.7 cm/L44 7 qf guns, cal: 4,7 cm 1 fixed 35 cm torpedo tube above water in stem. Others: Sail surface: 181.40 m 2 . 2 jollyboats, 1 steel-boat. 2 Admiralty-type anchors: 511 kg (chain diameter: 23 mm); 466 kg. Characteristics: Almost straight vertical stem, relative low, narrow and long hull. 2 masts, 1 smoke stack Complement: In 1907: 5 + 56. Career: In October of 1887 the contract for her building was concluded. 20/02/1888 The Emperor Franz Joseph I confirmed her name. 23/02 Her building was started. 7/07 She was launched. 25-29/08 Carried out a sea trial run between Pillau and Brüsterort, during which she made 21.5 knots. This was less than expected. The Shipyard made experiments with different screws. She was docked, the strut bearing was lowered and a larger, 3.00 m diameter screw was mounted. The hull under waterline was painted with a special paint. Despite all these efforts she made only 21.7 knots on the sea trials carried out between 11 and 15/10. 26/10 The Navy took her over and commissioned. 27/10 Put to sea from Pillau. 28-31/10 Oxhöft, Danzig-bay. 1-2/11 Helsingör. 4-10/11 Dover. 11/11 – 1/12 Plymouth. 3-9/12 Ferrol. 11-15/12 Gibraltar. 18-19/12 Palermo. 19-21/12 Messina. 23/12 Arrived at Pola. Between 26/01 – 1/02/1889 carried out sea trial runs off Pola. 14/02 She was decommissioned. Her armament was built in. 8/04 – 20/07 Belonged to the Summer Squadron. In 1890 she was in reserve. 12/05 – 28/06/1891 Served in the Squadron. 1892 – 1894 She was in reserve. 19/11/1895 Was fitted up to sail with the Squadron for Levant. 20/11 Put to sea from Pola. 22/11 Called at Teodo. 24/11 Gave assistance off Bellopolo in the great waves whipped up by a northerly gale to the Greek sailing ship Evangelistrio which lost her rudder and towed her to Phalera. Later the ship’s captain got from the Greek King the Officer Cross of the Salvation Order. 25/11 Put in Phalera. 30/12 Sailed from Piraeus. 2-14/01/1896 Saloniki. 15/01 Called at Skyros. 16-30/01 Syra. 1-3/02 Lemnos. 4-8/02 Tenedos. 10-12/02 Kios. 13-14/02 Cesme. 14-16/02 Santorini. 16-18/02 Nio. 19/02 Called for a short time at Bay of Prokopi. 20-21/02 Parvo. 21-23/02 Mykoni. 23-25/02 Zea. 25-27/02 Cerigo. 27-29/02 Calamotta. 1-3/03 Ithaka. Despite she endured bad weather for a long time, the ship behaved well in any weather condi- 19
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