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Revision as of 02:46, 3 May 2016

Seven Schütze class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1882-1883.

Overview of seven vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
Template:DE-Schütze AG Weser 1882 11 May, 1882 14 September, 1883 Sold 1900
Flink AG Weser 1882 25 May, 1882 6 November, 1883 Sold 1900
Scharf AG Weser 1882 30 May, 1882 5 September, 1883 Sold 1900
Tapfer AG Weser 1882 6 June, 1882 5 August, 1883 Sold 1908
Template:DE-Kühn AG Weser 1882 12 June, 1882 7 April, 1883 Sold 1900
Template:DE-Vorwärts AG Weser 1882 19 June, 1882 7 April, 1883 Sold 1900
Sicher AG Weser 1882 26 June, 1882 7 April, 1883 Sold 1900

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

[2][3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 262.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 262.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 152.

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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