D 1 Class Torpedo Boat (1886)

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Two D 1 class divisional torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1887.

Overview of 2 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
D 1 Schichau, Elbing 1886 19 Dec, 1886 27 Apr, 1887 Sold 1921
D 2 Schichau, Elbing 1886 11 Sep, 1886 1 May, 1887 Broken up 1921

Design & Construction

Ungalvanized steel construction[1] with one triple expansion engine and two locomotive boilers.[2]

These two ships were essentially enlarged editions of Schichau's standard torpedo boats meant to serve as flotilla or divisional leaders. Their increased size, roughly two-thirds again as large as the contemporary S 24 class torpedo boats, was used to accommodate the flotilla or divisional commander and his staff, as well as a much heavier gun armament.[3][4]

Performance

They were slightly faster than their S 7, S 24, and S 33 class contemporaries, and their greater size meant they were better seaboats in general.[5]

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

[6][7]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. D 2 was galvanized after construction commenced.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 157, 166.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.

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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