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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

S178 destroyers

very similar V170

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
S178   1043 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- sold incomplete 1919
S179   1044 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- sold incomplete 1919
S180   1045 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919
S181   1046 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919
S182   1047 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919
S183   1048 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919
S184   1049 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919
S185   1050 Schichau, Elbing 1918 --- --- BU incomplete 1919

  

Displacement normal, t

1268

Displacement full, t

1523

Length, m

93.4 oa 92.0 wl

Breadth, m

9.10

Draught, m

3.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Schichau geared steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

34000

Max speed, kts

35

Fuel, t

oil 345

Endurance, nm(kts)

2000(20)

Armament

4 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 40 mines

Complement

117

Project history: Large destroyers of the 1917 design type. They were the first German destroyers to have geared turbines. The boats were in the first stages of construction when the war ended; the orders were cancelled. S211-223 were cancelled before were laid down.

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