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L14 torpedo boats (1917 - 1918)


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LM boats after WW I

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

L14 - 15, 12.1917- LM14 - 15; LM16, 1926- UZ(S)20; LM27, 1926- UZ(S)16; LM28, 1926- UZ(S)17; LM29, 30

Max Oertz, Hamburg: L14 - 15, LM16, 27-30

1917: L14, 15

1918: LM16

1919: LM27, 28

BU incomplete: LM29, 30

Columbia, 1933: UZ(17), UZ(20) (B, D)

1919: LM15

1.1921: LM14

8.1930: UZ(S)16



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

6.8

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

16.5

Breadth, m

2.42

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Maybach HS petrol engines

Power, h. p.

720

Max speed, kts

31.6

Fuel, tpetrol 1600 l
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 - 450 TT

Complement7


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister ship LM17</i> 1918
nearly sister ship LM17 1918


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<i>LM</i> boats after WW I
LM boats after WW I


Project history

All boats had aircraft motors. Unlike British boats the German have been armed by one fixed bow TT instead of stern cradles. LM-type boats were used for coast defence, 14 were based on Belgium coast and 7 on Baltic.

Modernizations

1926, UZ(S)16: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (780hp)

1926, UZ(S)17: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (680hp = 1x260hp + 2x210hp)

1926, UZ(S)20: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (740hp)

Naval service

LM16 was rebuilt to despatch boat Max in 1921 but reverted to Navy as ASW boat in 1926. LM27 and LM28 were never commissioned by the navy, reclassified to auxiliary boats in 1922 and reverted to combat boats in 1926.