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ZIETEN 1 class aviso (1876)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Zieten     Thames IW, London, UK 1875 9.3.1876 1.8.1876 fishery protection 1899-1914, discarded 12.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1001

Displacement full, t

1170

Length, m

79.4 oa 69.5 wl

Breadth, m

8.56

Draught, m

3.80 mean 4.63 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 130

Endurance, nm(kts)

1770(9)

Armament

6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 2 - 381 TT (1 bow, 1 stern, 10)

Complement

94



Standard scale images


<i>Zieten</i> 1878
Zieten 1878


Project history

This torpedo vessel was designed in Britain. She was primarily used as a tender for torpedo development, but could be said to fall into the later category of torpedo gunboat, or torpedo cruiser. An elegant ship with a clipper bow, looking very much like a steam yacht, she had a good speed for her day. Before the general adoption of the QF guns, her powerful reserve of torpedo reloads and her good qualities as a seaboat could have proved useful in action, despite her lack of guns or protection.

Modernizations

1891: - 6 x 5 - 37/17; + 6 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

1899: - 2 - 381TT

1914: + 49 mines

Naval service

From 1899 she was used as a fishery protection vessel, and from 1914 as a coastal patrol ship.