S.M.S. D 6 (1889)

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S.M.S. D 6 (1889)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 385?[2]
Laid down: 1888[3]
Launched: 9 Feb, 1889[4]
Commissioned: 28 Jun, 1889[5]
Stricken: 7 Dec, 1920[6]
Broken up: 1921[7]

S.M.S. D 6 was one of two D 5 Class divisional torpedo boats completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Construction

D 6 was launched on 9 February, 1889.[8]

Service

D 6 commissioned on 28 June, 1889 and served as a flagship in torpedo and minesweeper flotillas until 1915. She was modernized at Schichau's Elbing yard in 1904, receiving two Marine-type boilers. After the outbreak of war she became a patrol flotilla vessel in 1915 and a submarine training vessel in 1916. D 6 was stricken on 7 December, 1920 and broken up in 1921.[9]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.


D 5 Class Divisional Torpedo Boat
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