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PELIKAN minelayer (1891)


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


<i>Pelikan</i> 1910
Pelikan 1910


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.