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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
A22 PC (ex-A40), 1926- A22, 1927- A40			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	2.9.1916	12.1916 // 6.1919	BU 1927
A23 PC (ex-A42), 1926- A23, 1927- A42, 1931- Zand			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	1.11.1916	1.1917 // 6.1919	TS 1931, sold 1939
A24 PC (ex-A43), 1926- A24, 1927- A43, 1931- Wielingen			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	25.12.1916	4.1917 // 6.1919	TS 1931, captured by Germany 18.5.1940
A25 PC (ex-A47), 1926- A25, 1927- A47			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	23.4.1917	6.1917 // 6.1919	sold 1931
A26 PC (ex-A49)			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	19.5.1917	7.1917 // 6.1919	to United Kingdom 9.1920, BU
A29 PC (ex-A31), 1926- A29			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1915	15.7.1916	9.1916 // 6.1919	BU 1927

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	227
Displacement full, t	250
Length, m	49.0 wl 50.0 oa
Breadth, m	5.32
Draught, m	2.12 normal 2.34 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 Schichau geared steam turbine set, 1 Marine twin boiler
Power, h. p.	3250
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	oil 53
Endurance, nm(kts)	690(20)
Armament	A22, 23, 25, 26 PC: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 450 TT, mechanical minesweeping gear A24, 29 PC: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 450 TT, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	29

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Project history

Coastal torpedo boats - minesweepers, ordered by Kaiserliche Marine for operations off coast of Flanders, development of A1 class. All were transferred to Belgium in 1919.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Wielingen was captured by German troops at Antwerp 18.5.1940, never commissioned by Kriegsmarine and broken up in 1943.