Schütze Class Torpedo Boat (1882)
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Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
Schütze | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 11 May, 1882 | 14 Sep, 1883 | Sold 1900 |
Flink | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 24 May, 1882 | 6 Nov, 1883 | Sold 1900 |
Scharf | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 30 May, 1882 | 5 Sep, 1883 | Sold 1900 |
Tapfer | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 6 Jun, 1882 | 5 Aug, 1883 | Sold 1908 |
Kühn | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 12 Jun, 1882 | 7 Apr, 1883 | Sold 1908 |
Vorwärts | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 19 Jun, 1882 | 7 Apr, 1883 | Sold 1908 |
Sicher | AG Weser, Bremen | 1882 | 26 Jun, 1882 | 7 Apr, 1883 | Sold 1908 |
Design & Construction
Performance
They were considered by one source to be "not particularly satisfactory."[1]
Armament
As Built
- One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
- Two 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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<– | S.M.S. Ulan | Torpedo Boats (DE) | S.M.S. Jäger | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class Torpedo Boats (DE) | V 1 Class | –> |