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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Zieten			Thames IW, London, UK	1875	9.3.1876	1.8.1876	fishery protection 1899-1914, discarded 12.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1001
Displacement full, t	1170
Length, m	79.4 oa 69.5 wl
Breadth, m	8.56
Draught, m	3.80 mean 4.63 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2000
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 130
Endurance, nm(kts)	1770(9)
Armament	6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 2 - 381 TT (1 bow, 1 stern, 10)
Complement	94

Standard scale images

Project history

This torpedo vessel was designed in Britain. She was primarily used as a tender for torpedo development, but could be said to fall into the later category of torpedo gunboat, or torpedo cruiser. An elegant ship with a clipper bow, looking very much like a steam yacht, she had a good speed for her day. Before the general adoption of the QF guns, her powerful reserve of torpedo reloads and her good qualities as a seaboat could have proved useful in action, despite her lack of guns or protection.

Modernizations

1891: - 6 x 5 - 37/17; + 6 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

1899: - 2 - 381TT

1914: + 49 mines

Naval service

From 1899 she was used as a fishery protection vessel, and from 1914 as a coastal patrol ship.