S 24 Class Torpedo Boat (1886)

Eight S 24 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1886-1887.

Overview of 8 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
S 24	Schichau, Elbing		30 Jul, 1886	24 Oct, 1886	Sold 28 Sep, 1920
S 25	Schichau, Elbing		4 Aug, 1886	4 Nov, 1886	Lost 6 Nov, 1914
S 26	Schichau, Elbing		21 Aug, 1886	15 Nov, 1886	Lost 22 Sep, 1897
S 27	Schichau, Elbing		24 Sep, 1886	15 Nov, 1886	Sold 28 Sep, 1920
S 28	Schichau, Elbing		1886	3 Dec, 1886	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 29	Schichau, Elbing		1919	23 Dec, 1886	Sold c. 1920
S 30	Schichau, Elbing		22 Nov, 1886	15 Jan, 1887	Sold 28 Sep, 1920
S 31	Schichau, Elbing		4 Dec, 1886	13 Apr, 1887	Sold 28 Sep, 1920

Armament

As Completed

• One 37mm machine gun
• Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

Post-1893

• One 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing gun
• Three 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).
• 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.