SMS Blücher (1877)

History
Illustration of SMS Blücher by Christopher Rave
German Empire
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
General characteristics
Class and 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)
Installed power:	2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) 4 boilers
Propulsion:	1 shaft 1 × 3-cylinder marine steam engine
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.

Career

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)

References

Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships: 1815–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-790-9. OCLC 22101769.
Kelly, Patrick J. (2011). Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35593-5.

External links

Media related to Blücher (ship, 1877) at Wikimedia Commons

Bismarck-class corvettes

Bismarck Blücher Stosch Moltke Gneisenau Stein

Preceded by: Leipzig class Followed by: Carola class List of ships of the Imperial German Navy

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1909

Shipwrecks	12 Jan: Sibyl Marston 24 Jan: Republic 4 Feb: Lobito 12 Feb: Penguin 8 Apr: Mahratta 20 Apr: Eber Ward 29 May: Narara 11 Jun: Slavonia 12 Jul: John B. Cowle 14 Jul: HMS C11 July (unknown date): Waratah 5 Aug: Lucania, Maori 11 Aug: USS Nezinscot 5 Sep: Eduard Bohlen 15 Sep: Francesco Morosini September (unknown date): USS Katahdin 5 Nov: Alligator 24 Nov: Alf 29 Nov: Ottawa 3 Dec: Ellan Vannin 8 Dec: Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 13 Dec: Governor Ames 26 Dec: Ada K. Damon

Other incidents	23 Jan: Republic 14 Jul: HMS C16, HMS C17 Unknown date: America, SMS Blücher

1908 1910

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