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The German system of naming their torpedo boats and [[Torpedo Boat Destroyer]]s is somewhat unusual when compared to how other countries did things.  Early designs were haphazardly named singletons and moderately small classes of torpedo boats.  The naming scheme soon developed into numbered boats with initial letters indicating the builder, e.g., "G" for those built by [[Germaniawerft]], "S" for  boats built by [[Schichau-Werke]], etc., with numbers being re-used by other builders.

By the 1890s, somewhat small destroyers were being built in increasingly large classes, but were still referred to as "torpedo boats".

==Early Designs==

The earliest boats followed experiments with spar-torpedo boats whom we omit from this category.

{|border=1
|'''Name'''||'''Year of first launch'''||'''Number built
|-
|[[Zephir Class Torpedo Steamer (1874)|''Zephir'' class torpedo steamer]]||align=center|1874||2
|-
|[[Schütze Class Torpedo Boat (1882)|''Schütze'' class torpedo boat]]||align=center|1882||7
|-
|{{DE-G|f=pt}}||align=center|1884||1
|-
|[[S 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)|S 1 class torpedo boat]]||align=center|1884||6
|-
|{{DE-Th1|f=pt}}||align=center|1884||1
|-
|{{DE-Th2|f=pt}}||align=center|1884||1
|-
|[[V 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)|V 1 Class Torpedo Boat]]||align=center|1884||10
|-
|[[W 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)|W 1 Class Torpedo Boat]]||align=center|1884||6
|-
|{{DE-Y|f=tp}}||align=center|1884||1
|-
|{{DE-I|f=pt}}||align=center|1885||1
|-
|{{DE-II|f=pt}}||align=center|1886||1
|}

{{TBC}}