V25 1914
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| V25 | 346 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 29.1.1914 | 6.1914 | sunk 13.2.1915 | |
| V26 | 347 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 21.2.1914 | 8.1914 | to United Kingdom 6.1920 | |
| V27 | 348 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 26.3.1914 | 9.1914 | sunk 31.5.1916 | |
| V28 | 349 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 9.5.1914 | 9.1914 | to United Kingdom 6.1920 | |
| V29 | 350 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 18.8.1914 | 10.1914 | sunk 31.5.1916 | |
| V30 | 351 | Vulcan, Stettin | 1913 | 18.9.1914 | 11/1914 | sunk 20.11.1918 |
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Displacement normal, t |
812 |
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Displacement full, t |
975 |
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Length, m |
78.5 oa 77.8 wl |
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Breadth, m |
8.33 |
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Draught, m |
3.63 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
23500 |
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Max speed, kts |
33.5 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 225 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 1080(20) |
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Armament |
3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines |
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Complement |
83 |
Project history: With the destroyers of the fiscal year 1913, the German Navy returned - alter the unsatisfactory performances of the type 1911-12 boats - to increased dimensions. Considering the general political situation and the performances of foreign destroyers the switch to greater displacement and pure oil-burning produced very desirable results: higher speed, better steaming capabilities and better seaworthiness, increased action radius and increased gun power. Compared with the last big coal-burning destroyers it should be noted that oil-burning meant a remarkable reduction in machinery personnel. These boats were to be armed with a new generation of weapons: the improved 8.8cm KL/45 torpedo-boat gun and the new, more powerful 50cm torpedo.
Modernizations: 1916 (temporary for experiments), V25: + 1 FF 33B seaplane, launched from platform installed on fwd twin TT.
Naval service: V25 was mined 13.2.1915 in the North Sea, V 27 and V 29 were 31.5.1916 lost in action at Jutland: former was sunk by British cruisers, latter was torpedoed by British destroyer Petard; V30 was lost 20.11.1918 after hitting a mine during the transfer to internment at Scapa Flow.
© Ivan Gogin, 2014