SMS Greif
SMS Greif
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 Kaiserliche Marine
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| Preceded by: | Blitz class |
| Succeeded by: | Wacht class |
| Completed: | 1 |
| History | |
 German Empire
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| Name: | SMS Greif |
| Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Laid down: | 1885 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1886 |
| Commissioned: | 9 July 1887 |
| Struck: | 25 October 1912 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | aviso |
| Displacement: | 2,266 tonnes (2,230 long tons) |
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| Beam: | 9.75 m (32 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 4.22 m (13 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power: | 5,400 ihp (4,027 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 3-cylinder double expansion steam engines, , 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Range: | 2,180 nmi (4,040 km; 2,510 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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SMS Greif was an aviso built by the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), the only ship of her class. She was built at the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel; her keel was laid in 1885, she was launched in July 1886, and she was commissioned in July 1887. Unlike the other avisos built by Germany, Greif was equipped only with a gun armament. Greif served with the fleet from 1887 until 1911, though she was not a particularly successful design and so saw little active service, having spent most of her time in reserve. In 1912, she was reduced to a training ship for engine-room personnel. In 1917, she was hulked for minelayers in Kiel. She was ultimately sold for scrapping in 1921 in Hamburg.
Greif was 99.5 meters (326 ft) long at the waterline and 102.6 m (337 ft) long overall. She had a beam of 9.75 m (32.0 ft) and a draft of 4.22 m (13.8 ft) forward and 4.34 m (14.2 ft) aft. The ship was designed to displace 2,050 metric tons (2,020 long tons; 2,260 short tons), and at combat loading, she displaced 2,266 t (2,230 long tons; 2,498 short tons). Her hull was constructed with transverse steel frames and it contained twelve watertight compartments.
Greif was a mediocre sea boat and was moderately handy. She pitched slightly but rolled significantly more. Her transverse metacentric height was .48 m (1 ft 7 in). The ship had a crew of seven officers and 163 enlisted men, though the latter later increased to 178. Greif carried several smaller boats, including one picket boat, two cutters, one yawl, and one dinghy.
Greif's propulsion system consisted of two horizontal 2-cylinder double expansion engines built by AG Germania, which drove a pair of four-bladed screws that were 4 m (13 ft) wide in diameter. Steam for the engines was provided by six cylindrical, double-ended, coal-fired water-tube boilers split in three boiler rooms. In 1906, she was reequipped with eight new cylindrical boilers in two boiler rooms, which slightly improved her performance. She was equipped with a pair of generators for electrical power; they had a combined output of 20 kilowatts (27 hp) at 67 volts. Steering was controlled with a single rudder.
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