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.
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| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| D 3 | Schichau, Elbing | 1887 | 1 Oct, 1887 | 3 May, 1888 | Broken up 1921 |
| D 4 | Schichau, Elbing | 1887 | 9 Nov, 1887 | 15 Oct, 1888 | Broken up 1921 |
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, 3⁄10ths 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
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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