S.M.S. Schneewittchen (1888)

Schneewittchen (1888)
Builder:	Danzig NYd
Laid down:	1888
Launched:	20 December, 1888
Commissioned:	10 October, 1889
Stricken:	12 September, 1920
Sold:	1921
Fate:	Broken up

Schneewittchen, originally named A, was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1889.

Construction

Her engines were taken from the salvaged V 3.

Service

A was commissioned on 10 October, 1889 for service as a torpedo training boat. Disarmed in 1892, A was renamed Schneewittchen on 30 January, 1899 and became a station yacht in the Baltic. Subsequently she was employed as a guard ship at Kiel. Schneewittchen was stricken on 21 September 1920 and broken up the next year at Kiel after being sold for 80,000 GM.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Built

• Two 37mm machine guns
• Three 35cm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

After c. 1892

• Nil

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.

Torpedo Boat S.M.S. Schneewittchen

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