S 33 Class Torpedo Boat (1887)

Nine S 33 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1887.

Overview of 9 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
S 33	Schichau, Elbing		3 May, 1887	20 Jun, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 34	Schichau, Elbing		7 May, 1887	24 Jun, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 35	Schichau, Elbing		25 May, 1887	26 Jun, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 36	Schichau, Elbing		25 Jun, 1887	15 Jul, 1887	Sold c. 1920
S 37	Schichau, Elbing		9 Jul, 1887	12 Aug, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 38	Schichau, Elbing		27 Jul, 1887	29 Jul, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 39	Schichau, Elbing		16 Aug, 1887	19 Sep, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 40	Schichau, Elbing		27 Aug, 1887	28 Sep, 1887	Sold 12 Oct, 1920
S 41	Schichau, Elbing		16 Sep, 1887	12 Oct, 1887	Foundered 28 Aug, 1895

Armament

As Completed

• One 37mm Hotchkiss 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.