SMS Hummel
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hummel |
| Namesake | Bumblebee |
| Operator | Imperial German Navy |
| Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
| Laid down | July 1879 |
| Launched | 12 February 1881 |
| Commissioned | 22 May 1882 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1884 |
| Stricken | 27 September 1910 |
| Fate | Sunk, 4 May 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wespe-class gunboat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 46.4 m (152 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 10.6 m (34 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 3.2 to 3.4 m (10 ft 6 in to 11 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 11.1 knots (20.6 km/h; 12.8 mph) |
| Range | 700 nmi (1,300 km; 810 mi) at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
| Complement |
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| Armament | 1 × 30.5 cm (12 in) MRK L/22 gun |
| Armor | |
SMS Hummel was an ironclad gunboat of the Wespe class built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the 1870s. The ships, which were armed with a single 30.5 cm (12 in) MRK L/22 gun, were intended to serve as part of a coastal defense fleet. Because Hummel was a purely defensive vessel, she saw little active use, apart from brief stints in active service for sea trials in 1882 and a short training period in 1884. The ship remained in the reserve fleet for the next twenty-five years before being struck from the naval register in 1910. Hummel was used in a variety of subsidiary roles, ending up as a floating anti-aircraft battery during World War II. She was sunk by Allied in May 1945, in the final days of the war.