W 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)

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Six W 1 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1884.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
W 1 AG Weser, Bremen 22 Apr, 1884 1884 Broken up 1910
W 2 AG Weser, Bremen 1 May, 1884 1884 Broken up 1910
W 3 AG Weser, Bremen 13 May, 1884 1884 Broken up 1910
W 4 AG Weser, Bremen 24 May, 1884 1884 Broken up 1910
W 5 AG Weser, Bremen 31 May, 1884 1884 Broken up 1910
W 6 AG Weser, Bremen 13 Jun, 1884 1884 Broken up 1912

Design & Construction

These boats were the last surface torpedo craft built by AG Weser for the Imperial German Navy.

Performance

Armament

  • Two 37mm machine guns
  • Two 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.

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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