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Two '''''D 3'' class divisional torpedo boats''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in 1888.
Two '''''D 3'' class divisional torpedo boats''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in 1888.
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Latest revision as of 18:36, 26 April 2018

Two D 3 class divisional torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1888.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
D 3 Schichau, Elbing 1887 1 Oct, 1887 3 May, 1888 Broken up 1921
D 4 Schichau, Elbing 1887 9 Nov, 1887 15 Oct, 1888 Broken up 1921

Design & Construction

Galvanized steel construction with one triple expansion engine and two locomotive boilers. They were slightly-lengthened versions of the preceding D 1s[1]

Performance

Gröner gives their speed as 20.3 knots, 3⁄10ths of a knot slower than the D 1s.[2]

Armament

As Completed

  • Six 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
  • Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

Post-1893

  • Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[3][4]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.

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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