D 7 Class Torpedo Boat (1891)

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Two D 7 class divisional torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1891.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
D 7 Schichau, Elbing 1890 6 May, 1891 25 Jul, 1891 Broken up 1921
D 8 Schichau, Elbing 1890 8 Jun, 1891 25 Oct, 1891 Broken up 1921

Design & Construction

Galvanized steel construction with one triple expansion engine and two locomotive boilers.[1]

Performance

Armament

As Completed

  • Six 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
  • Three 450mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

Post-1893

  • Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Three 450mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[2][3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.


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