S 114 Class Torpedo Boat (1902)

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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]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 169-170.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  3. ↑ 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.


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