S 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1884)

Six S 1 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1884-1885. They were the first of a long line of torpedo craft built by Schichau-Werke.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
S 1	Schichau, Elbing		24 May, 1884	24 May, 1884	Broken up 1905
S 2	Schichau, Elbing		12 Jun, 1884	12 Jun, 1884	Broken up 1915
S 3	Schichau, Elbing		9 Jul, 1884	9 Jul, 1884	Broken up 1921
S 4	Schichau, Elbing		5 Aug, 1884	5 Aug, 1884	Sold 1902
S 5	Schichau, Elbing		5 Aug, 1884	5 Aug, 1884	Sold 1909
S 6	Schichau, Elbing		5 Aug, 1884	5 Aug, 1884	Sold 1909

Performance

The S 1s were the best seaboats of the 1884-1885 series of torpedo boats.

Armament

As Built

• Two 37mm machine guns
• Two 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).
• 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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