Schütze Class Torpedo Boat (1882)

Seven Schütze class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1882-1883.

Overview of 7 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Schütze	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	11 May, 1882	14 Sep, 1883	Sold 1900
Flink	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	24 May, 1882	6 Nov, 1883	Sold 1900
Scharf	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	30 May, 1882	5 Sep, 1883	Sold 1900
Tapfer	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	6 Jun, 1882	5 Aug, 1883	Sold 1908
Kühn	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	12 Jun, 1882	7 Apr, 1883	Sold 1908
Vorwärts	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	19 Jun, 1882	7 Apr, 1883	Sold 1908
Sicher	AG Weser, Bremen	1882	26 Jun, 1882	7 Apr, 1883	Sold 1908

Performance

They were considered by one source to be "not particularly satisfactory."

Armament

As Built

• One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
• Two 350mm torpedo tubes, four 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.

Schütze Class First-class Torpedo Boat

Schütze

Flink

Scharf

Tapfer

Kühn

Vorwärts

Sicher

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