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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

L5 motor torpedo boats (1917)

Names

L5, 6, 1917- LM5, 6

Builders

Max Oertz, Hamburg: L5, 6

Commissioned

1917: L5, 6

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1919: LM5, 6

 

Displacement normal, t

6

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

15.0

Breadth, m

2.42

Draught, m

1.08

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Maybach CX petrol engines

Power, h. p.

630

Max speed, kts

29.5

Fuel, t

petrol 1.5
Endurance, nm(kts) 225(30)

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 - 450 TT (bow, 1)

Complement 7

Project history: Competitive design to LM1 built by the Oertz yard, but first of this type with TT (to ward off destroyers guarding the net barrages). The torpedo was fired from a fixed TT built into the fore deck.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

LM6 1917

© Ivan Gogin, 2014