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A22 PC torpedo boats (1916-1917/1919)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
A22 PC (ex-A40), 1926- A22, 1927- A40     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 2.9.1916 12.1916 // 6.1919 BU 1927
A23 PC (ex-A42), 1926- A23, 1927- A42, 1931- Zand     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 1.11.1916 1.1917 // 6.1919 TS 1931, sold 1939
A24 PC (ex-A43), 1926- A24, 1927- A43, 1931- Wielingen     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 25.12.1916 4.1917 // 6.1919 TS 1931, captured by Germany 18.5.1940
A25 PC (ex-A47), 1926- A25, 1927- A47     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 23.4.1917 6.1917 // 6.1919 sold 1931
A26 PC (ex-A49)     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 19.5.1917 7.1917 // 6.1919 to United Kingdom 9.1920, BU
A29 PC (ex-A31), 1926- A29     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1915 15.7.1916 9.1916 // 6.1919 BU 1927


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

227

Displacement full, t

250

Length, m

49.0 wl 50.0 oa

Breadth, m

5.32

Draught, m

2.12 normal 2.34 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 Schichau geared steam turbine set, 1 Marine twin boiler

Power, h. p.

3250

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

oil 53

Endurance, nm(kts)

690(20)

Armament

A22, 23, 25, 26 PC: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 450 TT, mechanical minesweeping gear

A24, 29 PC: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 1 x 1 - 450 TT, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

29



Standard scale images


<i>A22 PC</i> 1919
A22 PC 1919


Project history

Coastal torpedo boats - minesweepers, ordered by Kaiserliche Marine for operations off coast of Flanders, development of A1 class. All were transferred to Belgium in 1919.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Wielingen was captured by German troops at Antwerp 18.5.1940, never commissioned by Kriegsmarine and broken up in 1943.