NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pelikan		12	KW Wilhelmshaven	1889	29.7.1890	10/1891	stricken 11.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2364
Displacement full, t	2424
Length, m	84.2 oa 80.9 wl
Breadth, m	11.7
Draught, m	5.14
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal 410
Endurance, nm(kts)	4200(10)
Armament	4 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 400 mines
Complement	195

Standard scale images

Project history

Though basically a mercantile hull, this vessel is interesting as one of the first specialised minelayers built and the first example of a German ship of this type. Laid down in 1889 and completed in October 1891, she was principally intended to transport mines and not lay them, but the mines were carried on deck rails, and could be lowered over the side if required. She was rebuilt in 1908.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Pelikan was commissioned as guard and survey ship for Baltic, reclassified to mine test ship in November 1895.