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A8 1915

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
A1		20	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	16.1.1915	1.1915	TS, discarded 5.1922
A2		21	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	17.3.1915	3.1915	sunk 1.5.1915
A3		22	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	24.6.1915	7.1915	lost 7.11.1915
A4		23	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	26.6.1915	6.1915	scuttled 11.11.1918, salvaged, to Belgium (A3 PC)
A5		24	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	5.5.1915	5.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A4 PC)
A6		25	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	3.4.1915	4.1915	sunk 1.5.1915
A7		26	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	2.2.1915	4.1915	sunk 21.3.1918
A8		27	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	25.4.1915	5.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A5 PC)
A9		28	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	4.8.1915	8.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A6 PC)
A10		29	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	16.8.1915	8.1915	sunk 7.2.1918
A11		30	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	4.6.1915	6.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A7 PC)
A12		31	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	28.4.1915	5.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A2 PC)
A13		32	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	15.5.1915	5.1915	sunk 16.8.1917
A14		33	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	22.7.1915	7.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A1 PC)
A15		34	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	10.7.1915	7.1915	sunk 23.8.1915
A16		35	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	16.6.1915	6.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A8 PC)
A17		36	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	8.6.1915	7.1915	scuttled 13.3.1920
A18		37	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	2.7.1915	7.1915	discarded 1.1922
A19		38	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	9.9.1915	10.1915	sunk 21.3.1918
A20, 3.1943- Reiher, 10.1943- Warendorp		39	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	27.8.1915	9.1915	interned by Belgium 11.1918, to Belgium 6.1919 (A9 PC), returned 1940, commissioned 3.1943 (TS), surrendered 5.1945, to USA 6.1945
A21		40	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	1.6.1915	6.1915	scuttled 13.3.1920
A22		41	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	22.5.1915	6.1915	discarded 5.1922
A23		42	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	5.5.1915	5.1915	discarded 5.1922
A24		43	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	12.6.1915	8.1915	TS, discarded 5.1922
A25		44	Vulcan, Hamburg	1914	13.7.1915	7.1915	TS, discarded 5.1922

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	109
Displacement full, t	137
Length, m	41.6 oa 41.0 wl
Breadth, m	4.60
Draught, m	1.52 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 Marine boiler
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	coal 25
Endurance, nm(kts)	900(12.5)
Armament	A1, 2, 17, 18, 21 - 25: 1 x 1 - 52/51 SK L/55 C/03, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 4 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear A3 - 16, 19, 20: 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, 4 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement	28

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Project history

Coastal torpedo-boat 1914 design, A I type, built by A G Vulcan, Hamburg (hulls of A8, A14, A19 and A24 subcontracted to Sachsenberg Werft (Rosslau) and A4, A10 and A15 to Stettiner Oderwerke). This was the first design for a small coastal torpedo-boat to be used on the Flanders coast. A 2, A 4-A 16, A 19 and A 20 were sent in sections by railway to Antwerp/Hoboken and finished there.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Despite being a poor design they saw action in the Channel and suffered heavy losses. A4, A5, A8, A9, A11, A12, A14, A16 and A20 were abandoned in the retreat from Flanders, taken over by Belgium and operated until about 1927 (A20 survived lo be recaptured in 1940 and was not BU until 1948). A2 and A6 were sunk by British destroyers 1.5.1915 in the North Sea. A3 was lost by unknown cause 7.11.1915 en route from Kiel to Danzig. A7 was sunk 21.3.1918 off Flanders coast by French destroyers Capitaine Mehl and Bouclier. A10 was mined 7.2.1918 off Flanders coast. A13 was sunk by British airplanes 16.8.1917 at Ostend, salvaged but 22.11.1917 destroyed by field artillery. A15 was sunk 23.8.1915 by French destroyers Branlebas and Oriflamme off Flanders coast. A17 and A21 were scuttled 13.1.1920 at Kiel by putschists, salvaged next year and BU. A19 was sunk by British destroyers off Flanders coast 21.3.1918.