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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

TORPEDO SHIPS

Z1 torpedo boats

V105 1915

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Z1   353 Vulcan, Stettin, Germany 1914 26.8.1914 1.1915 // --- completed for Germany (V105)
Z2   354 Vulcan, Stettin, Germany 1914 26.8.1914 1.1915 // --- completed for Germany (V106)
Z3   355 Vulcan, Stettin, Germany 1914 12.12.1914 3.1915 // --- completed for Germany (V107)
Z4   356 Vulcan, Stettin, Germany 1914 12.12.1914 3.1915 // --- completed for Germany (V108)

 

Displacement normal, t

322

Displacement full, t

421

Length, m

62.6 oa 62.0 wl

Breadth, m

6.22

Draught, m

2.54

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 60 + oil 16

Endurance, nm(kts) 1400(17)

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp No.4, 2 x 1 - 12.7/87, 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

46

Project history: Torpedo boats built for Dutch Navy in Germany as 'very large' (Z- 'zeer groot') and taken over by Germany 10.8.1914 while still on the stocks. Later four repeat units were built in the Netherlands.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014