NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S43, 11.1910- T43		404	Schichau, Elbing	1889	17.6.1889	8/1889	minesweeper 1913, sunk 7.10.1915
S44, 11.1910- T44		405	Schichau, Elbing	1889	30.10.1889	12/1889	minesweeper 1913, discarded 10.1920
S45, 11.1910- T45		406	Schichau, Elbing	1889	12.7.1889	9/1889	minesweeper 1913, discarded 5.1922
S46, 11.1910- T46		407	Schichau, Elbing	1889	3.8.1889	11/1889	minesweeper 1913, sunk 16.8.1915
S47, 11.1910- T47		408	Schichau, Elbing	1889	2.9.1889	10/1889	minesweeper 1913, sunk 29.5.1915
S48		409	Schichau, Elbing	1889	20.9.1889	2/1890	collision 11.4.1896
S49, 11.1910- T49		410	Schichau, Elbing	1889	30.1.1890	3/1890	minesweeper 1913, discarded 10.1920
S50, 11.1910- T50		411	Schichau, Elbing	1889	4.11.1889	4/1890	minesweeper 1913, foundered 28.9.1914
S51, 11.1910- T51		412	Schichau, Elbing	1889	28.11.1889	9/1890	minesweeper 1913, sunk 29.5.1915
S52, 11.1910- T52		413	Schichau, Elbing	1889	20.12.1889	9/1890	minesweeper 1913, sunk 8.8.1915
S53, 11.1910- T53		414	Schichau, Elbing	1889	18.1.1890	9/1890	minesweeper 1913, discarded 10.1920
S54, 11.1910- T54		415	Schichau, Elbing	1889	30.1.1890	8/1890	minesweeper 1913, sunk 6.10.1917
S55, 11.1910- T55		416	Schichau, Elbing	1889	19.2.1890	11/1890	minesweeper 1913, discarded 10.1920
S56, 11.1910- T56		417	Schichau, Elbing	1889	2.4.1890	10/1890	minesweeper 1913, wrecked 16.10.1917
S57, 11.1910- T57		418	Schichau, Elbing	1889	9.6.1890	10/1890	minesweeper 1913, sunk 5.4.1915

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	127
Displacement full, t	152
Length, m	44.2
Breadth, m	5.00
Draught, m	2.70 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	1571
Max speed, kts	21.5
Fuel, t	coal 30
Endurance, nm(kts)	2160(10)
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, all: - 1 x 5 - 37/27; + 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

1909, S49, S51, S53-S56; 1910, S46, S47; 1913, T43, T44: reboilered with Marine boiler

1913, all survived: - 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. T43 was struck by mine 7.10.1915 in North Sea. T46 sank on mine 16.8.1915 on Baltic, T47 and T51 were mined there 29.5.1915. S48 collided 11.4.1896 with sister-ship S46 in Jade and sunk. T50 foundered in storm 28.9.1914 on Baltic. T52 was mined on Baltic 8.8.1915, T54 was mined there 6.10.1917. T56 wrecked on Baltic 16.10.1917. T57 was mined on Baltic 5.4.1915.