Schwalbe 1890
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Schwalbe | 9 | Wilhelmshaven KW | 1887 | 16.8.1887 | 4.5.1888 | harbour ship 1902 | |
| Sperber | 10 | Wilhelmshaven KW | 1888 | 23.8.1888 | 2.4.1889 | gunboat 3.1911, hulk 3.1912 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1111 |
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Displacement full, t |
1359 |
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Length, m |
66.9 oa 62.6 wl |
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Breadth, m |
9.36 |
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Draught, m |
4.40 mean 4.72 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 HC, 4 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
1500 |
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Max speed, kts |
13.5 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 240 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
2180(12) |
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Armament |
8 x 1 - 105/32 RK L/35 C/86, 5 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30 |
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Complement |
117 |
Project history: Though classed as light cruisers, these slow, composite-built (steel and wood with copper sheathing), ram-bowed, barquentine-rigged vessels fall more readily into the sloop or colonial gunboat class, and spent their early careers overseas.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Both were used as hulks during the First World War, and broken up in 1922. Schwalbe had a rebuild between 1903 and 1905 and had her rig cut down to steadying.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014