W 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)
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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
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ 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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