S.M.S. S 125 (1904)
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Jump to navigationJump to searchS.M.S. S 125 was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1905.
Construction
S 125 was launched on 19 May, 1904.[1]
Service
S 125 commissioned on 4 April, 1905. She served as a coastal defense vessel in 1914 and was renamed T 125 on 27 September, 1916. She served in patrol and escort flotillas in 1917-1918 and was retained after the Armistice in the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine. T 125 was stricken on 26 October, 1920 and was broken up at Hamburg-Moorburg after being sold on 13 May, 1921 for 215,000M.[2]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Armament
- Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
- Four 450mm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes
See Also
Footnotes
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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