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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

S67 torpedo boats (1893-1894)

S67 1894

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
S67, 9.1914- T67   500 Schichau, Elbing 1892 14.2.1893 5/1893 minesweeper 1914, sunk 13.8.1918
S68, 9.1914- T68   501 Schichau, Elbing 1892 9.3.1893 7/1893 minesweeper 1914, sunk 4.6.1918
S69, 9.1914- T69   502 Schichau, Elbing 1892 20.4.1893 8/1893 minesweeper 1914, discarded 10.1920
S70, 9.1914- T70   503 Schichau, Elbing 1892 6.6.1893 9/1893 minesweeper 1914, discarded 1.1921
S71, 9.1914- T71   504 Schichau, Elbing 1892 2.8.1893 10/1893 minesweeper 1914, discarded 3.1921
S72, 9.1914- T72   505 Schichau, Elbing 1892 20.6.1893 11/1893 minesweeper 1914, discarded 1.1921
S73, 9.1914- T73   506 Schichau, Elbing 1892 23.6.1893 1/1894 minesweeper 1914, discarded 1.1921

  

Displacement normal, t

137

Displacement full, t

166

Length, m

47.9

Breadth, m

5.42

Draught, m

2.58 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

1600

Max speed, kts

21.9

Fuel, t

coal 31

Endurance, nm(kts) 1700(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

22 - 24

Project history: These vessels continued the same process of steady improvement of the basic design begun by their predecessors.

Modernizations: 1902, S69; 1904, S67, S68, S70, S71, S73; 1906, S72: were reboilered with new locomotive boiler

1914, all: were reboilered with 2 Marine boilers; - 1 - 450 TT, 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service: Most were rebuilt and reboilered in the opening years of the new century. In September 1914 all were redesignated with the letter T beginning their numbers, and were used during the war as minesweepers and as tenders to instructional vessels. T67 and T68 were mined in North Sea 13.8.1918 and 4.6.1918 respectively.

Ivan Gogin, 2014