S.M.S. Ulan (1876)

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Ulan (1876)
Builder: Möller & Holberg, Stettin-Grabow[1]
Work Number: 56[2]
Laid down: 1875[3]
Launched: 3 April, 1876[4]
Commissioned: 8 October, 1876[5]
Stricken: 26 May, 1909[6]
Sold: 13 Aug, 1919[7]
Fate: Broken up
Ulan was a spar torpedo steamer completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1876.

Construction

Laid down as torpedo steamer No IV but later renamed Ulan.[8]

Service

Ulan was a poor seaboat, suffering from pronounced pitching and rolling in winds above Force 5.[9] She was rebuilt as a torpedo and artillery training tender and served in that role from 1880 onward. She was stricken on 26 May, 1909 and subsequently used as a barge.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Built

  • One spar torpedo with three 63 kg explosive charges

1880

  • One 381mm torpedo tube, three torpedoes
  • Three 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns

[11][12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 150.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  10. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.
  11. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 262.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 151.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.


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