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==Construction==
 
==Construction==

Revision as of 13:33, 15 May 2016

Sleipner was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1900 and used as a dispatch vessel.

Construction

Sleipner was a slightly enlarged version of the S 90 class, begun as S 97 and launched on 16 December, 1899.[1]

Service

Upon commissioning she was renamed Sleipner and served as a dispatch vessel at the service of the Kaiser. She was renamed T 97 soon after the outbreak of the First World War, and served in coastal defense and patrol duties, serving in a patrol and escort flotilla during 1917-18. After the Armistice she was retained by the Reichsmarine, serving into the early 1920s. T 97 was stricken on 22 March, 1921 and sold on 26 May, 1921 to a Düsseldorf firm for breaking up.[2]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Four 450mm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

[3][4]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 169-170.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 169.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 169.

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).
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. 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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