S 7 Class Torpedo Boat (1885)

Seventeen S 7 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1885.

Overview of 9 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
S 7	Schichau, Elbing		6 May, 1885	13 Aug, 1885	Defunct after 1905
S 8	Schichau, Elbing		13 May, 1885	4 Nov, 1885	Broken up after 1910
S 9	Schichau, Elbing		30 May, 1885	13 Aug, 1885	Sold 1906
S 10	Schichau, Elbing		8 Jun, 1885	13 Aug, 1885	Discarded after 1905
S 11	Schichau, Elbing		18 Jun, 1885	31 Jul, 1885	Sold 28 Aug, 1920
S 12	Schichau, Elbing		27 Jun, 1885	2 Sep, 1885	Collision 13 Mar, 1908
S 13	Schichau, Elbing		7 Jul, 1885	28 Aug, 1885	Sold 28 Aug, 1920
S 14	Schichau, Elbing		15 Jul, 1885	3 Sep, 1885	Sold 28 Sep, 1920
S 23	Schichau, Elbing		10 Oct, 1885	21 Dec, 1885	Sold 1905

Armament

As Completed

• One 37mm 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).
• 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.