| 1873 | Line Drawing of S.M.S. Seehund by G.Pawlik |
Gun Boats |
Austro-Hungarian "Seehund" |
| The Seehund
was one of a series of four 2nd class gunboats built by the Austrian Navy in the early
sixties of the past century. She and her sisters Reka, Wall [old orthography for Wal
e.g. "whale"] and Streiter were primary used for perimeter patrols
against piracy and looting along the Dalmatian coast and the "archipelago of the
thousand isles". All four fought in the battle of Lissa on 20.7.1866, together with the three gunboats Hum, Vellebich and Dalmat, forming Tegetthoffs 3rd squadron. |
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| Technical Data | ||
| Laid down: Launched: Commissioned Displacement: Dimensions: Propulsion: Max. Speed: Range: Fuel: Crew: |
October 1860 at S.T.T. San Marco 30 May 1861 14 December 1861 838.58 / 890.75 ts 58.06 x 8.48 x 4.0 m 634 ihp; 6 cylinder boilers; and 930 square meters sail 11.5 kts ? 81.5 tons coal? 9 + 103 |
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| Main: Torpedoes: Searchlights: |
as built 4 smoothbore 48 pdrs muzzle loaders; in 1863 2 x 48 pdrs, 2 x 24 pdrs 1x350mm below waterline (since 1869) 2x600 mm |
| In 1869 the Seehund
was modified and reclassified for future service as torpedo trials and training vessel,
which works were finished not before 1871. During the modification she was subsequently
stripped of her guns and received a submerged 35 cm bow torpedo tube to test the new
weapon developed by Whitehead. According to the negative results of the underwater torpedo launching trials Whitehead was in asked in 1877 to modify his launching device for above water usage and the Seehund was rebuilt and reclassified as tender of the torpedo training vessel and floating torpedo launching battery. In 1886 she was too old for further conversions and stricken from the fleet list for further service as coaling lighter, which works were finished in 1887. In 1916 she was still in service as coaling lighter at the naval arsenal Pola under the designation K 680, her further fate and date of final scrapping is unknown. |
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