NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S90		644	Schichau, Elbing	1898	26.7.1899	10.1899	scuttled 17.10.1914
S91, 9.1914- T91		645	Schichau, Elbing	1898	25.9.1899	4.1900	discarded 3.1921
S92, 9.1914- T92		646	Schichau, Elbing	1899	15.5.1900	6.1900	discarded 3.1921
S93, 9.1914- T93		647	Schichau, Elbing	1899	24.3.1900	7.1900	discarded 3.1921
S94, 9.1914- T94		648	Schichau, Elbing	1899	23.4.1900	7.1900	scuttled 13.3.1920
S95, 9.1914- T95		649	Schichau, Elbing	1899	20.2.1900	8.1900	discarded 3.1921
S96, 9.1914- T96		670	Schichau, Elbing	1899	31.1.1900	9.1900	discarded 3.1921
S97, 5.1900- Sleipner, 9.1914- T97		672	Schichau, Elbing	1899	16.12.1899	5.1900	dispatch vessel till 9.1914, discarded 3.1921
S98, 9.1914- T98		673	Schichau, Elbing	1899	28.7.1900	11.1900	discarded 3.1921
S99, 9.1914- T99		674	Schichau, Elbing	1899	4.9.1900	12.1900	discarded 3.1921
S100, 9.1914- T100		675	Schichau, Elbing	1899	13.11.1900	4.1901	TS 1915, collision 15.10.1915
S101, 9.1914- T101			Schichau, Elbing	1899	22.12.1900	4.1901	discarded 3.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	310
Displacement full, t	394 S97: 440
Length, m	63.0 oa 62.7 wl
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.83 deep load S97: 2.99 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	5900
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 93
Endurance, nm(kts)	830(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5) S97 Sleipner: 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92
Complement	57

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

1914, T97: + 1 x 1 - 52/51 SK L/55 C/03, 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT

1910s, T92: - 3 x 1 - 50/37; + 2 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89

Naval service

  S97 was converted before entering service to be the tender to the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern and was renamed Sleipner. She was reconverted to a fighting ship when war broke out, and with all her sisters was reclassed as a T-boat in September 1914. S90 was scuttled ad Tsingtao 17.10.1914 to avoid capture by Japanese. T100 was lost 15.10.1915 in the Baltic after collision with s/s Preussen. T94 was scuttled by putschists at Wilhelmshaven 13.3.1920, later salvaged and broken up.