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Wacht 1890

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Wacht		85	Weser, Bremen	1886	27.8.1887	9.8.1888	collision 4.9.1901
Jagd		86	Weser, Bremen	1887	7.7.1888	25.6.1889	harbour vessel 5.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1246
Displacement full, t	1499
Length, m	85.5 oa 84.0 wl
Breadth, m	9.66
Draught, m	3.74 mean 4.67 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 DTE, 4 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	4000
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	2860(10)
Armour, mm	compound; deck: 20 with 40mm slopes, glacis: 75, CT: 25
Armament	3 x 1 - 105/32 RK L/35 C/86, 3 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	141

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Project history

These single-funnelled vessels were poor seaboats, and had poor manoeuvrability. However, with their TTs and guns they were a better answer to the problem of producing a small fighting vessel for the North Sea or Baltic than any of their contemporaries. Shortly after completion they were rearmed with 4-88mm guns.

Ship protection

They had a compound iron-steel armoured deck (flat amidships consisted of 10mm iron on 10mm steel, slopes had 20mm iron and 20mm steel layers). Engine was protected by 75mm glacis on 150mm wood backing. CT had 25mm sides and 10mm roof.

Modernizations

1891, both: - 3 x 1 - 105/32; + 4 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89

Naval service

Wacht was lost 4.9.1901 in the Baltic in a collision with the battleship Sachsen. Jagd was broken up in 1920.