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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
A1 PC (ex-A14), 1926- Prince Léopold, 1927- A12			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	22.7.1915	7.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A2 PC (ex-A12), 1926- A2 Prince Charles			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	28.4.1915	5.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A3 PC (ex-A4), 1926- A3 Princesse Marie-José, 1927- A4			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	26.6.1915	6.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A4 PC (ex-A5), 1926- A4, 1927- A5			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	5.5.1915	5.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A5 PC (ex-A8), 1926- A5, 1927- A8, 1931- Oever			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	25.4.1915	5.1915 // 6.1919	TS 1931, BU 1939
A6 PC (ex-A9), 1926- A6, 1927- A9			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	4.8.1915	8.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A7 PC (ex-A11), 1926- A7, 1927- A10			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	4.6.1915	6.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A8 PC (ex-A16), 1926- A8, 1927- A16			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	16.6.1915	6.1915 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A9 PC (ex-A20), 1926- A9, 1927- A20, 1931- West Diep			Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany	1914	27.8.1915	9.1915 // 6.1919	TS 1931, captured by Germany 18.5.1940 (Reiher)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	109
Displacement full, t	137
Length, m	41.0 wl 41.6 oa
Breadth, m	4.60
Draught, m	1.17 normal 1.52 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 Marine boiler
Power, h. p.	1093
Max speed, kts	19
Fuel, t	coal 24.5
Endurance, nm(kts)	900(12.5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 4 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	28

Standard scale images

Project history

Coastal torpedo boats, ordered by Kaiserliche Marine for operations off coast of Flanders. All were transferred to Belgium in 1919.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

West Diep was captured by German troops at Antwerp 18.5.1940 and used by Kriegsmarine as Reiher, later Warendorp, till capitulation. She was returned to Belgium in 1945 and broken up in 1948.