| SMS Blücher (1877) | |
|---|---|
 Illustration of SMS Blücher by Christopher Rave | |
| Career (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 & 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 was commanded by Alfred von Tirpitz from August 1880 to 1884 while he was assigned to the Torpedo School at Kiel.[1]
Notes[]
- ↑ Kelly, pp. 52, 58
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.
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