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B97 destroyers (1915)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
B97   238 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 15.12.1914 2.1915 to Italy 5.1920 (Cesare Rossarol)
B98   239 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 2.1.1915 3.1915 to United Kingdom 1920
B109   242 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 11.3.1915 6.1915 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
B110   243 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 31.3.1915 6.1915 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
B111   244 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 8.6.1915 8.1915 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
B112   245 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg 1914 17.6.1915 9/1915 interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1374

Displacement full, t

1843

Length, m

98.0 oa 96.0 wl

Breadth, m

9.35

Draught, m

B97, 98: 3.87

B109 - 112: 3.83

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Marine steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

B97, 98: 36.5

B109 - 112: 36

Fuel, t

oil 527

Endurance, nm(kts)

B97, 98: 2600(20)

B109 - 112: 2620(20)

Armament

4 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines

Complement

114



Standard scale images


<i>B97</i> 1918
B97 1918


Project history

One aspect of the Czarist Russian fleet construction programme was the building of a modern yard at St Petersburg, which was undertaken by Blohm & Voss and officially opened on 29 November 1913. When war broke out four powerful destroyers were under construction there: Leytenant Ilyin, Kapitan Konon Zotov, Gavriil and Mikhail. Their 40,000shp turbine sets were being built by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg and were seized immediately. The yard proposed to the German Navy the building of destroyers around these sets within six months. Against the opposition of the torpedo authorities - who argued that these boats might not fit into the German flotillas - von Tirpitz pushed through the scheme and they (plus additional boats) were built. They were the first three funnelled boats in the German destroyer arm, and were faster (37.4kts for the B109 group on trials) and more heavily armed than contemporary German destroyers and had better seaworthiness. They were referred to as 'destroyers' in German sources, as opposed to the 'high seas torpedo-boats'.

Modernizations

1916, all: - 4 x 1 - 88/42; + 4 x 1 - 105/42 TK L/45 C/16

Naval service

No significant events.