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SOMERS torpedo boat (1898)


Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
TB22, 8.1918- CTB9 Somers, 8.1918- unnamed   Schichau, Elbing, Germany   1897 3/1898 stricken 10.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

143

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

47.6

Breadth, m

5.33

Draught, m

1.78 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VQE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

1700

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

coal 37

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

4 x 1 - 37/40 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

24



Project history

Built by Schichau as a private speculation and purchased 25.3.1898. Single funnel and three masts. Two training deck TT and one submerged bow TT. Crossed the Atlantic on board SS Manhattan.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.