NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S125, 9.1916- T125		723	Schichau, Elbing	1903	19.5.1904	4.1905	discarded 10.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	355
Displacement full, t	454
Length, m	64.7 oa 64.2 wl
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	3.17 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Parsons steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	6600
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 93
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5)
Complement	61

Standard scale images

Project history

Apart from the experimental turbine vessel (another was building at the end of the period), these units, classed as large torpedo boats but, despite their lighter guns, really the equivalent of contemporary foreign destroyers, show a large degree of homogeneity. They all shared the 'trade mark' of the torpedo tube placed before the bridge in a well deck between the raised forecastle and the charthouse. All had two funnels. In fact this design was a combination of the best features of the D9 and the D10, of the German torpedo boat traditional design, and of the British destroyer. The result was a sturdy and seaworthy vessel, not as fast as foreign boats, but probably more useful than most.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.