SMS Natter (1880)
Natter in Kiel | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Natter |
| Namesake | SMS Natter |
| Operator | Imperial German Navy |
| Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
| Laid down | July 1879 |
| Launched | 29 September 1880 |
| Commissioned | 20 May 1881 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1900 |
| Stricken | 18 March 1911 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1946 |
| 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 Natter 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 Natter was a purely defensive vessel, she saw little active use, apart from brief stints in active service for sea trials after she was completed in 1881, followed by short training exercises in 1884 and then annually from 1894 to 1900. Natter was struck from the naval register in 1911, renamed Stromquelle I and stationed in Wilhelmshaven. She was renamed Natter in 1924 and used as a training ship through 1945. The ship was eventually broken up in 1946.