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Brummer 1888  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Brummer		52	Weser, Bremen	1883	5.1.1884	10.1884	fishery protection 1891-1894, hulk 5.1907
Bremse		53	Weser, Bremen	1883	29.5.1884	12.1884	store hulk 3.1903

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	867
Displacement full, t	929
Length, m	64.8 oa 62.6 wl
Breadth, m	8.50
Draught, m	4.77
No of shafts	1
Machinery	2 DC, 2 locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	Brummer: 1658 Bremse: 2081
Max speed, kts	Brummer: 14.1 Bremse: 15.2
Fuel, t	coal 68
Endurance, nm(kts)	1370(10)
Armour, mm	compound; breastwork: 160, deck: 40 - 25
Armament	1 x 1 - 209/28 RK L/30 C/84, 1 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82, 2 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 1 - 350 TT
Complement	65 - 78

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Project history

Another approach to the one-gun gunboat idea, longer, lighter and less well armoured than the Wespe class, but also intended for coastal defence. Their main protection was a 160mm bulkhead to shelter them from end-on fire. They were good seaboats.

Ship protection

There were 160mm bulkhead protected the main gun from end-on fire, backed by 200mm wood. Armoured deck was 25mm amidships and 40mm aft.

Modernizations

1900s, Brummer: - 2 x 5 - 37/17, 1 - 350 TT

Naval service

Brummer started life as the flagship of the torpedo forces, later being allocated to fishery protection, and later still being used as a weapons and machinery school. She was not broken up until 1922. Her sister was converted to an oil barge, and sold in this role in 1910.