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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

V105 torpedo boats (1915)

V105 1915

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
V105 (ex-Z1)   353 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 26.8.1914 1.1915 to Brazil 8.1920, later to Poland (Mazur)
V106 (ex-Z2)   354 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 26.8.1914 1.1915 to Brazil 8.1920
V107 (ex-Z3)   355 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 12.12.1914 3.1915 sunk 8.5.1915
V108 (ex-Z4)   356 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 12.12.1914 3.1915 to Poland 8.1920 (Kaszub)

  

Displacement normal, t

340

Displacement full, t

421

Length, m

62.6 oa 62.0 wl

Breadth, m

6.22

Draught, m

2.54

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

coal 60 + oil 16

Endurance, nm(kts) 1400(17)

Armament

V105, 107: 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

V106: 2 x 1 - 52/51 SK L/55 C/03, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

V108: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

60

Project history: Originally ordered for the Netherlands as the Z1-4, they were taken over by the German Navy at the builders (Vulcan, Stettin) on 10 August 1914.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: V107 was stricken by Russian mine 8.5.1915 off Libava 8.5.1915.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014