SMS Blücher (1877)
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Illustration of SMS Blücher by Christopher Rave
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| Name: | SMS Blücher |
| Namesake: | Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher |
| Builder: | Norddeutsche Schiffbau, Kiel |
| Laid down: | 1876 |
| Launched: | 20 September 1877 |
| Completed: | 21 December 1879 |
| Fate: | Sold 1908 |
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| Class & type: | Bismarck-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 3,332 t (3,279 long tons) |
| Length: | 82.5 m (270 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 13.7 m (44 ft 11 in) |
| Draught: | 6.18 m (20 ft 3 in) |
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| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range: | 1,940 nmi (3,590 km; 2,230 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 404 |
| Armament: | 16 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns |
SMS Blücher was a Bismarck-class corvette built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the late 1870s.
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Career
File:Kaiserliche Marine Blücher und Torpedoboote im Seegang, Chromo-Lithographie von Willy Stöwer 1894, nr18 aus G. Wislicenus, Unsre Kriegsflotte.jpg
Blücher in heavy seas with a torpedo boat
Blücher was commanded by Alfred von Tirpitz from August 1880 to 1884 while he was assigned to the Torpedo School at Kiel.[1] Later the Blücher was a ship of the Torpedo School at Flensburg-Mürwik. She was decommissioned after a boiler explosion in Mürwik in 1909.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Kelly, pp. 52, 58
- ↑ Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass (1982). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945. Bernard & Graefe, pp. 70-72. ISBN 3-7637-4800-8 (German)
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