S.M.S. D 2 (1886)

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S.M.S. D 2 (1886)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 324[2]
Laid down: 1886[3]
Launched: 11 Sep, 1886[4]
Commissioned: 1 May, 1887[5]
Stricken: 7 Dec, 1920[6]
Broken up: 1921[7]

S.M.S. D 2 was one of two D 1 Class divisional torpedo boats completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Construction

Begun as D 1, she was launched on 11 September, 1886.[8]

Service

D 1 was commissioned on 1 May, 1887 and renamed D 2 on 1 August of the same year.[9]

In early 1897, D 2 was the flagship of the VI. Torpedobootsdivision (Reserve), an element of the II. Torpedoabtheilung based at Wilhelmshaven.[10] By the spring of 1900, still based at Wilhelmshaven, she had been transferred to the II. Torpedobootsdivision (Reserve) within the same Torpedoabtheilung.[11]

In March 1902 she became station yacht in the North Sea with a large deckhouse built abaft her mainmast and was renamed Alice Roosevelt. With the outbreak of war in August 1914 she reverted to warlike duties, serving as a coastal defense vessel in the early months of the war. Alice Roosevelt was stricken on 7 December, 1920 and broken in 1921.[12]

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  6. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  8. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  9. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  10. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, 1897. p. 36.
  11. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 46.
  12. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  13. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, 1897. p. 37.
  14. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 47.


D 1 Class Divisional Torpedo Boat
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