NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S42, 11.1910- T42		403	Schichau, Elbing	1889	29.5.1889	6/1889	minesweeper 1913, discarded 10.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	123
Displacement full, t	153
Length, m	44.2
Breadth, m	5.00
Draught, m	2.60 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	1420
Max speed, kts	22.2
Fuel, t	coal 18 + oil 5.7
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 1 - 350 TT (bow, 2), 2 x 1 - 350 TT
Complement	16

Standard scale images

Project history

All the boats in the S7-S65 group were adhered to Schichau's standard torpedo boat form, with the maximum breadth of hull well aft, producing a plan that resembled a pear shape.

Modernizations

1893: - 1 x 5 - 37/27; + 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

1896: reboilered with Marine boiler

1913: - 1 - 350 TT, 2 x 1 - 350 TT; + mechanical minesweeping gear

Naval service

Some of the earliest boats were discarded 1900-1910, becoming target boats or tenders, or just being broken up, but the majority were rebuilt and reboilered. In 1910 the survivors had their designations changed from S to T, to clear the S numbers for new destroyers. During the war they were used as minesweepers.