Schütze Class Torpedo Boat (1882)
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Seven Schütze class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1882-1883.
Overview of seven vessels | |||||
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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
See Also
Footnotes
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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<– | S.M.S. Ulan | Torpedo Boats (DE) | S.M.S. Jäger | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First-class Torpedo Boats (DE) | V 1 Class | –> |