Brummer 1895
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Brummer | 52 | Weser, Bremen | 1883 | 5.1.1884 | 10.1884 | fishery protection 1891-1894, hulk 5.1907 | |
| Bremse | 53 | Weser, Bremen | 1883 | 29.5.1884 | 12.1884 | store hulk 3.1903 |
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Displacement normal, t |
867 |
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Displacement full, t |
929 |
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Length, m |
64.8 oa 62.6 wl |
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Breadth, m |
8.50 |
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Draught, m |
4.77 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
2 DC, 2 locomotive boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
Brummer: 1658 Bremse: 2081 |
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Max speed, kts |
Brummer: 14.1 Bremse: 15.2 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 68 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
1370(10) |
| Armour, mm | compound; breastwork: 160, deck: 40 - 25 |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 209/28 RK L/30 C/84, 1 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82, 2 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 1 - 350 TT |
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Complement |
65 - 78 |
Project history: Another approach to the one-gun gunboat idea, longer, lighter and less well armoured than the Wespe class, but also intended for coastal defence. Their main protection was a 160mm bulkhead to shelter them from end-on fire. They were good seaboats.
Ship protection: There were 160mm bulkhead protected the main gun from end-on fire, backed by 200mm wood. Armoured deck was 25mm amidships and 40mm aft.
Modernizations: 1900s, Brummer: - 2 x 5 - 37/17, 1 - 350 TT
Naval service: Brummer started life as the flagship of the torpedo forces, later being allocated to fishery protection, and later still being used as a weapons and machinery school. She was not broken up until 1922. Her sister was converted to an oil barge, and sold in this role in 1910.
Brummer 1888
© Ivan Gogin, 2014