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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

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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.