S90 1905
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| S90 | 644 | Schichau, Elbing | 1898 | 26.7.1899 | 10.1899 | scuttled 17.10.1914 | |
| S91, 9.1914- T91 | 645 | Schichau, Elbing | 1898 | 25.9.1899 | 4.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S92, 9.1914- T92 | 646 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 15.5.1900 | 6.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S93, 9.1914- T93 | 647 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 24.3.1900 | 7.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S94, 9.1914- T94 | 648 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 23.4.1900 | 7.1900 | scuttled 13.3.1920 | |
| S95, 9.1914- T95 | 649 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 20.2.1900 | 8.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S96, 9.1914- T96 | 670 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 31.1.1900 | 9.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S97, 5.1900- Sleipner, 9.1914- T97 | 672 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 16.12.1899 | 5.1900 | dispatch vessel till 9.1914, discarded 3.1921 | |
| S98, 9.1914- T98 | 673 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 28.7.1900 | 11.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S99, 9.1914- T99 | 674 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 4.9.1900 | 12.1900 | discarded 3.1921 | |
| S100, 9.1914- T100 | 675 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 13.11.1900 | 4.1901 | TS 1915, collision 15.10.1915 | |
| S101, 9.1914- T101 | Schichau, Elbing | 1899 | 22.12.1900 | 4.1901 | discarded 3.1921 |
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Displacement normal, t |
310 |
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Displacement full, t |
394 S97: 440 |
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Length, m |
63.0 oa 62.7 wl |
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Breadth, m |
7.00 |
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Draught, m |
2.83 deep load S97: 2.99 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
5900 |
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Max speed, kts |
27 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 93 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
830(17) |
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Armament |
3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5) S97 Sleipner: 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92 |
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Complement |
57 |
Project history: Apart from the experimental turbine vessel (another was building at the end of the period), these units, classed as large torpedo boats but, despite their lighter guns, really the equivalent of contemporary foreign destroyers, show a large degree of homogeneity. They all shared the 'trade mark' of the torpedo tube placed before the bridge in a well deck between the raised forecastle and the charthouse. All had two funnels. In fact this design was a combination of the best features of the D9 and the D10, of the German torpedo boat traditional design, and of the British destroyer. The result was a sturdy and seaworthy vessel, not as fast as foreign boats, but probably more useful than most.
Modernizations: 1914, T97: + 1 x 1 - 52/51 SK L/55 C/03, 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT
1910s, T92: - 3 x 1 - 50/37; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89
Naval service: S97 was converted before entering service to be the tender to the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern and was renamed Sleipner. She was reconverted to a fighting ship when war broke out, and with all her sisters was reclassed as a T-boat in September 1914. S90 was scuttled ad Tsingtao 17.10.1914 to avoid capture by Japanese. T100 was lost 15.10.1915 in the Baltic after collision with s/s Preussen. T94 was scuttled by putschists at Wilhelmshaven 13.3.1920, later salvaged and broken up.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014