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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
LM7 - 10 (ex-L7 - 10)	Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany: LM7 - 10	1917 // ---: LM7 - 10	LM7 (1919), LM8 (1919), LM9 (1919)	None	1921: LM10

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	7
Displacement full, t
Length, m	16.0
Breadth, m	2.40
Draught, m	0.68
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Maybach HS petrol engines
Power, h. p.	720
Max speed, kts	31.8
Fuel, t	petrol 1
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 - 450 TT (bow, 1)
Complement	7

Standard scale images

Project history

Originally called L-boats because of their airship (Lüfеschiff) engines, this type of German 7t MTB was later reclassified as LM boats to avoid confusions with the L-numbered Zeppelins. The Austrian Navy showed keen interest in obtaining German MTBs and an agreement of 20 August 1918 ordered that out of the 6 boats (LM3-6, LM11, LM12) which were to be sent to Pola via railway for employment by the German C-in-C of the Mediterranean U-boats, and LM7-10 were to be handed over to the Austro-Hungarian Navy (plans also included later transfer of LM3-6, 11 and 12). Also LM13 was to be sold to the Austrians after her completion; but none of these boats reached Pola before the end of the war.