S.M.S. K (1887)

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K (1887)
Builder: Kiel NYd[1]
Work Number: 11[2]
Laid down: 1887[3]
Launched: 16 July, 1887[4]
Commissioned: June 1889[5]
Stricken: 30 January, 1899[6]
Sold: c. 1899[7]
Fate: Broken up

S.M.S. K was a torpedo boat built for the Imperial German Navy in 1887.

Construction

K was designed by Kaiserliche Werft Kiel, and employed a John I. Thornycroft & Company-designed ducted propeller called a "guide blade screw". She was launched on 16 July, 1887.[8]

Service

K was commissioned in June 1889 for service with an experimental division. Like her predecessor H, K's active career was short owing to the poor quality of materials used to build her. She was stricken on 30 January, 1899, sold for 16,000 GM and broken up at Hamburg.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • Two 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
  • Three 350mm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

[10][11]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  10. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 263.
  11. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.

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).
  • 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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