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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

S32 torpedo boat (1886)

S32 1894

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
S32   334 Schichau, Elbing 1886 12.11.1886 12/1886 collision 17.8.1910

  

Displacement normal, t

104

Displacement full, t

119

Length, m

39.1

Breadth, m

5.30

Draught, m

2.52 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

900

Max speed, kts

19.9

Fuel, t

coal 23

Endurance, nm(kts) 2050(10)

Armament

1 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 1 - 350 TT (bow, 2), 2 x 1 - 350 TT

Complement

20

Project history: All the boats in the S7-S65 group were adhered to Schichau's standard torpedo boat form, with the maximum breadth of hull well aft, producing a plan that resembled a pear shape.

Modernizations: 1893: - 1 x 5 - 37/27; + 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

1896: reboilered with 2 Yarrow boilers

Naval service: Some of the earliest boats were discarded 1900-1910, becoming target boats or tenders, or just being broken up, but the majority were rebuilt and reboilered. In 1910 the survivors had their designations changed from S to T, to clear the S numbers for new destroyers. During the war they were used as minesweepers. S32 collided in Baltic Sea 17.8.1910 with torpedo boat S76 and sunk.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014