Schichau Class Torpedo Boat (1886)

The twenty-two torpedo boats of the Schichau Class were completed for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1886 and 1891.

Overview of 22 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
19	Seearsenal	1890	1891	1891	Broken up 1924
20	Schichau-Werke	1888	1889	1889	Broken up 1920
21	Schichau-Werke	1888	May, 1889	1889	Broken up 1924
22	Schichau-Werke	1888	1889	1889	Broken up 1925
23	Schichau-Werke	1887	1888	1888	Broken up 1920
24	Schichau-Werke	1887	1888	1888	Broken up 1925
25	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest	1889	1889	1890	Broken up 1925
26	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest	1888	1889	1889	Broken up 1925
27	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest	1888	1889	1889	Broken up
28	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest		1889		Broken up 1911
29	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest	1888	12 Dec, 1889	Dec, 1889	Broken up 1925
30	Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, Triest	1889	1890	1890	Broken up
31	Schichau-Werke	1885	1886	1886	Broken up 1920
32	Schichau-Werke	1885	1886	1886	Broken up 1925
33	Seearsenal	1885	30 Sep, 1886	1886	Broken up
34	Seearsenal	1885	17 Sep, 1886	1886	Broken up
35	Seearsenal	1885	17 Nov, 1886	1886	Broken up
36	Seearsenal	1886	7 Dec, 1886	1886	Broken up 1924
37	Seearsenal	1886	1887	1887	Broken up
38	Seearsenal	1886	1887	1887	Broken up 1924
39	Seearsenal	1886	1887	1887	Broken up 1920
40	Seearsenal	1886	1887	1887	Broken up 1924

History & Design

Initially given names, the boats were redesignated with the numbers 19–40 on 1 April, 1910.

Ten of the boats were converted to serve as minesweepers in the years immediately before the war.

Armament

• two 37 mm Hotchkiss guns
• two single 356 mm (14-in) torpedo tubes

The torpedoes carried only a 45 kg warhead, to a range of 600m at 24 knots. Such performance would have greatly inhibited the punch of such torpedo boats by 1914.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

Schichau Class Second-class Torpedo Boat
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