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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

L7 motor torpedo boats (1917)

nearly sister ship LM17 1918

Names

L7 - 10; 1917- LM7 - 10

Builders

Lürssen, Vegesack: L7 - 10

Commissioned

1917: L7 - 10

Losses

LM7 (1919), LM8 (1919), LM9 (1919)

Transfers

None

Discarding

1921: LM10

 

Displacement normal, t

7

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

2.40

Draught, m

0.68

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Maybach HS petrol engines

Power, h. p.

720

Max speed, kts

31.8

Fuel, t

petrol 1
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

Complement 7

Project history: Built by Lürssen after experience with the three foregoing competitive types. They were ordered in May-June 1917 and were intended for the Baltic.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: LM 10 was sold in March 1921, and the others were scuttled in 1919, raised and wrecked on the night of 6.7 November 1921 and the wrecks BU.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014