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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

V161 large torpedo boat (1908)

nearly sister-ship V162 1910

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
V161, 9.1917- T161   285 Vulcan, Stettin 1907 21.4.1908 9.1908 to United Kingdom 8.1920

  

Displacement normal, t

596

Displacement full, t

687

Length, m

72.5 oa 72.2 wl

Breadth, m

7.80

Draught, m

2.98 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 AEG steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

14800

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

coal 166

Endurance, nm(kts) 1520(14)

Armament

2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (4)

Complement

84

Project history: Following standard German practice this twelfth boat of the 1907 fiscal year group was turbine-propelled, on virtually the same dimension as the VTE boats.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

V161 1908

 

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