S 114 Class Torpedo Boat (1902)

Six S 114 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1902-1903.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
S 114	Schichau, Elbing	1902	9 Aug, 1902	25 Oct, 1902	7 Jul, 1921
S 115	Schichau, Elbing	1902	10 Sep, 1902	22 Feb, 1903	Sunk 17 Oct, 1914
S 116	Schichau, Elbing	1902	14 Oct, 1902	28 Mar, 1903	Torpedoed 6 Oct, 1914
S 117	Schichau, Elbing	1902	4 Feb, 1903	21 May, 1903	Sunk 17 Oct, 1914
S 118	Schichau, Elbing	1902	21 Mar, 1903	9 Jul, 1903	Sunk 17 Oct, 1914
S 119	Schichau, Elbing	1902	8 Jul, 1903	6 Sep, 1903	Sunk 17 Oct, 1914

Design & Construction

The S 114 boats were a further improvement on the basic S 90 design, the major change being that the hull contained eleven watertight compartments instead of ten.^[1]

Performance

Armament

Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
Four 450mm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

^[2]^[3]

Footnotes

↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 169-170.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 169.

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.