S 58 Class Torpedo Boat (1891)
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Eight S 58 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1891-1892.
Overview of 8 vessels | |||||
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Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
S 58 | Schichau, Elbing | 3 Dec, 1891 | 3 May, 1892 | Mined 8 Aug, 1915 | |
S 59 | Schichau, Elbing | 9 Dec, 1891 | 29 May, 1892 | Sold 12 Oct, 1920 | |
S 60 | Schichau, Elbing | 26 Mar, 1892 | 11 Jul, 1892 | Broken up c. 1920 | |
S 61 | Schichau, Elbing | 6 Apr, 1892 | 23 Jul, 1892 | Sold 23 Apr, 1921 | |
S 62 | Schichau, Elbing | 7 May, 1892 | 29 Jul, 1892 | Sold 23 Apr, 1921 | |
S 63 | Schichau, Elbing | 28 May, 1892 | 12 Aug, 1892 | Broken up c. 1921 | |
S 64 | Schichau, Elbing | 28 Jun, 1892 | 11 Sep, 1892 | Mined 23 Oct, 1916 | |
S 65 | Schichau, Elbing | 13 Oct, 1892 | 10 Nov, 1892 | Mined 26 Oct, 1917 |
Design & Construction
Performance
Armament
As Completed
- One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
- Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes
Post-1893
- One 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing gun
- 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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