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==Construction==
 
==Construction==

Revision as of 19:14, 14 May 2016

Th 2 (1884)
Builder: Thornycroft, Chiswick[1]
Work Number: 194[2]
Laid down: 1883[3]
Launched: 23 May, 1884[4]
Commissioned: 1 August, 1884[5]
Fate: Unknown
S.M.S. Th 2 was a second-class torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1884.

Construction

Ordered as second-class torpedo boat No IV. When the German Navy's naming system for torpedo craft was changed, she was renamed Th 2.[6]

Service

Th 2 was commissioned on 1 August, 1884 for experimental work. Like all second-class torpedo boats she was only marginally seaworthy any sort of rough seas. She was later renamed Seebär and used as a trials vessel for roll gyroscopes. Her further fate is unknown.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • One 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun
  • Two 350mm torpedo tubes, two torpedoes

[8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  2. ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 326.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  7. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.
  8. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 153.

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.
  • Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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