S.M.S. Th 2 (1884)

Th 2 (1884)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company, Chiswick
Work Number:	194
Laid down:	1883
Launched:	23 May, 1884
Commissioned:	1 August, 1884
Fate:	Unknown

S.M.S. Th 2 was a second-class torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1884.

Construction

Ordered as second-class torpedo boat No IV. When the German Navy's naming system for torpedo craft was changed, she was renamed Th 2.

Service

Th 2 was commissioned on 1 August, 1884 for experimental work. Like all second-class torpedo boats she was only marginally seaworthy any sort of rough seas. She was later renamed Seebär and used as a trials vessel for roll gyroscopes. Her further fate is unknown.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

• One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
• Two 350mm torpedo tubes, two torpedoes

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.
• Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).

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