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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

V67 large torpedo boats (1915-1916)

V67 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
V67   11 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 3.8.1915 11.1915 scuttled 2.11.1918
V68   12 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 24.8.1915 12.1915 sunk 8.8.1918
V69   376 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 18.8.1915 1.1916 scuttled 2.11.1918
V70   13 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 14.10.1915 1.1916 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
V71   377 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 1.9.1915 3.1916 interned 1918, to United Kingdom 5.1920
V72   378 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 30.12.1915 3/1916 sunk 11.11.1916
V73   379 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 24.9.1915 2/1916 interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to USA 10.1920
V74   380 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 29.10.1915 3/1916 scuttled 3.10.1918
V75   14 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 15.1.1916 4/1916 sunk 10.11.1916
V76   15 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 27.2.1916 6/1916 sunk 11.11.1916
V77   16 Vulcan, Hamburg 1914 28.2.1916 5/1916 scuttled 2.11.1918
V78   381 Vulcan, Stettin 1914 19.2.1916 5/1916 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
V79   17 Vulcan, Hamburg 1915 18.4.1916 7/1916 to France 6.1920 (Pierre Durand)
V80   382 Vulcan, Stettin 1915 28.4.1916 7/1916 interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to Japan 10.1920
V81   383 Vulcan, Stettin 1915 27.5.1916 7/1916 interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to United Kingdom 10.1920
V82   384 Vulcan, Stettin 1915 5.7.1916 8/1916 interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to United Kingdom 10.1920
V83   385 Vulcan, Stettin 1915 10.6.1916 10/1916 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
V84   18 Vulcan, Hamburg 1915 17.8.1916 11/1916 sunk 26.5.1917

  

Displacement normal, t

924

Displacement full, t

1188

Length, m

82.0 oa 81.0 wl

Breadth, m

8.32

Draught, m

3.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

V67 - 82: 2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers

V83, 84: 2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines with torque converters, 3 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

23500

Max speed, kts

34

Fuel, t

oil 306 - 308

Endurance, nm(kts)

2050(17)

Armament

V67 - 81: 3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines

V82 - 84: 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines

Complement

85

Project history: Mobilization destroyers, saw active wartime service.

Modernizations: 1916, V67-71, 73, 74, 77-81: - 3 x 1 - 88/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16

Naval service: V68 (8.8.1918 at Flanders coast), V72 (11.11.1916 in the Gulf of Finland), V75 (10.11.1916 in the Gulf of Finland), V76 (11.11.1916 in the Gulf of Finland) and V84 (26.5.1917 in the North Sea) were lost on mines; V67 (2.11.1918 Terneuzen-Canal), V69 (2.11.1918 at Gent), V74 (3.10.1918 at Brügge) and V77 (2.11.1918 Terneuzen-Canal) were scuttled after the German retreat from Belgium; V70, V73, V78, V81-83 were interned at Scapa and scrapped after their salvage; V79 became a French war reparation and served under the name Pierre Durand until 1933; V80 became a Japanese war reparation but was scrapped in England in 1922.

V67 1917

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