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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, mmcompound; 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



Standard scale images


<i>Jagd</i> 1890
Jagd 1890


Graphics


<i>Wacht </i>1890
Wacht 1890


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.