B97 1918
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| B97 | 238 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 15.12.1914 | 2.1915 | to Italy 5.1920 (Cesare Rossarol) | |
| B98 | 239 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 2.1.1915 | 3.1915 | to United Kingdom 1920 | |
| B109 | 242 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 11.3.1915 | 6.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| B110 | 243 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 31.3.1915 | 6.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| B111 | 244 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 8.6.1915 | 8.1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 | |
| B112 | 245 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1914 | 17.6.1915 | 9/1915 | interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1374 |
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Displacement full, t |
1843 |
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Length, m |
98.0 oa 96.0 wl |
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Breadth, m |
9.35 |
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Draught, m |
B97, 98: 3.87 B109 - 112: 3.83 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Marine steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
40000 |
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Max speed, kts |
B97, 98: 36.5 B109 - 112: 36 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 527 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
B97, 98: 2600(20) B109 - 112: 2620(20) |
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Armament |
4 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines |
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Complement |
114 |
Project history: One aspect of the Czarist Russian fleet construction programme was the building of a modern yard at St Petersburg, which was undertaken by Blohm & Voss and officially opened on 29 November 1913. When war broke out four powerful destroyers were under construction there: Leytenant Ilyin, Kapitan Konon Zotov, Gavriil and Mikhail. Their 40,000shp turbine sets were being built by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg and were seized immediately. The yard proposed to the German Navy the building of destroyers around these sets within six months. Against the opposition of the torpedo authorities - who argued that these boats might not fit into the German flotillas - von Tirpitz pushed through the scheme and they (plus additional boats) were built. They were the first three funnelled boats in the German destroyer arm, and were faster (37.4kts for the B109 group on trials) and more heavily armed than contemporary German destroyers and had better seaworthiness. They were referred to as 'destroyers' in German sources, as opposed to the 'high seas torpedo-boats'.
Modernizations: 1916, all: - 4 x 1 - 88/42; + 4 x 1 - 105/42 TK L/45 C/16
Naval service: No significant events.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014