D 3 Class Torpedo Boat (1887)

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

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, 310ths 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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