G 88 Class Torpedo Boat (1897)

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Two G 88 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1897-1898.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
G 88 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1896 10 Jul, 1897 2 May, 1898 Sold May, 1921
G 89 Germaniawerft, Kiel 1897 19 Feb, 1898 18 Aug, 1898 Sold May, 1921

Design & Construction

These were the first torpedo boats ordered by the German Navy from Germaniawerft since the early 1880s.

Performance

Armament

As Completed

  • One 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing gun
  • Three 450mm torpedo tubes

[1]

After Refit[2]

  • One 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing gun
  • Two 450mm torpedo tubes

[3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 160.
  2. Precise date unknown.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 160.

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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