V 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)

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Ten V 1 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1885.

Overview of ten vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Fate
V 1 AG Vulcan, Stettin 1 Apr, 1884 11 Aug, 1884 Broken up 1910

Design & Construction

Performance

Armament

  • Two 37mm Hotchkiss 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.


V 1 Class First Class Torpedo Boat
V 1 V 2 V 3 V 4 V 5
V 6 V 7 V 8 V 9 V 10
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