S.M.S. S 42 (1887)

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S.M.S. S 42 (1887)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 403[2]
Launched: 29 May, 1887[3]
Commissioned: 27 Jun, 1889[4]
Stricken: 26 Oct, 1920[5]
Sold: 6 Jan, 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up

S 42 was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1889.

Construction

Launched on 29 May, 1887.[7]

Service

Commissioned on 27 June, 1889 and reboilered in 1896. She was sunk in a collision with the British merchantman S.S. Firsby on 24 June 1902 in the Elbe estuary (53°56'N, 08°49'E). Five of her crew died in the accident. She was subsequently raised and returned to service as a training vessel.[8]

She was renamed T 42 on 11 November, 1910 and served as a minesweeper and coast defense vessel from 1915 until becoming a tender in 1917, and was retained by the Reichsmarine until being stricken on 26 October, 1920. Sold for 95,000M on 6 January, 1921 and broken up at Wilhelmshaven.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

  • One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
  • Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[10][11]

Post-1893

  • One 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing gun
  • Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 157.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 157.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 158.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 158.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p.158.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 158.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 158.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 156, 158.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 158.
  10. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 263.
  11. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 156.

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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