SMS Mücke
Mücke sometime in the 1880s to 1897 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mücke |
| Namesake | Mosquito |
| Operator | Imperial German Navy |
| Builder | AG Weser, Bremen |
| Laid down | 1876 |
| Launched | 5 May 1877 |
| Commissioned | 25 February 1878 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1900 |
| Stricken | 18 March 1911 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | 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 knots (20 km/h; 13 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 Mücke 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. Mücke saw significant service from the mid-1880s to early 1890s during training maneuvers with the rest of the German fleet, frequently serving as a flagship of a gunboat flotilla. After a refit in 1894, the ship spent much of the rest of the decade in reserve, being reactivated for short training periods. In 1911, she was reduced to a training ship, and she was eventually sold to ship breakers in 1921.