S.M.S. D 8 (1891)

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S.M.S. D 8 (1891)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 442[2]
Laid down: 1890[3]
Launched: 8 Jun, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 25 Oct, 1891[5]
Stricken: 7 Dec, 1920[6]
Sold: 1921[7]
Fate: Broken up 1921

S.M.S. D 8 was one of two D 7 Class divisional torpedo boats completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Construction

D 7 was launched on 6 May, 1891.[8]

Service

D 8 commissioned on on 25 July, 1891 and served as a torpedo boat and minesweeper flotilla flagship until 1908.[9]

During 1900 D 8 was flagship of the C. (III.) Torpedobootsdivision, an element of the II. Torpedobootsflotille[10]

D 8 was overhauled at Schichau's Elbing yard during 1907, and was reboilered with new Marine-type boilers.[11]

D 8 served as a coast defense vessel during 1914, a submarine training vessel in 1916, and experimental duties in 1917. She was stricken on 7 December, 1920 and broken up in 1921 at Hamburg.[12]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  10. ↑ Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 25.
  11. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.


D 7 Class Divisional Torpedo Boat
  D 7 D 8  
<– S 43 Class Torpedo Boats (DE) S 58 Class –>
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