NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S114, 9.1916- T114		700	Schichau, Elbing	1902	9.8.1902	10.1902	discarded 11.1920
S115		701	Schichau, Elbing	1902	10.9.1902	2.1903	sunk 17.10.1914
S116		702	Schichau, Elbing	1902	14.10.1902	3.1903	sunk 6.10.1914
S117		703	Schichau, Elbing	1902	4.2.1903	5.1903	sunk 17.10.1914
S118		704	Schichau, Elbing	1902	21.3.1903	7.1903	sunk 17.10.1914
S119		705	Schichau, Elbing	1902	8.7.1903	9.1903	sunk 17.10.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	315
Displacement full, t	415
Length, m	63.2 oa 63.0 wl
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.69 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	5900
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 102
Endurance, nm(kts)	980(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5)
Complement	57

Standard scale images

Project history

Apart from the experimental turbine vessel (another was building at the end of the period), these units, classed as large torpedo boats but, despite their lighter guns, really the equivalent of contemporary foreign destroyers, show a large degree of homogeneity. They all shared the 'trade mark' of the torpedo tube placed before the bridge in a well deck between the raised forecastle and the charthouse. All had two funnels. In fact this design was a combination of the best features of the D9 and the D10, of the German torpedo boat traditional design, and of the British destroyer. The result was a sturdy and seaworthy vessel, not as fast as foreign boats, but probably more useful than most.

Modernizations

1913, all: were reboilered with 3 Marine boilers

Naval service

S116 was 6.10.1914 torpedoed by British submarine E9 in the North Sea. S115, S117, S118 and S119 were sunk by British cruiser Undaunted and 4 destroyers in the North Sea 17.10.1914.