S126 large seagoing torpedo boats (1905)

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Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S126, 9.1916- T126	737	Schichau, Elbing	1904	26.11.1904	4.1905	discarded 3.1920
S127, 9.1916- T127	738	Schichau, Elbing	1904	12.1.1905	6.1905	discarded 3.1921
S128, 9.1916- T128	739	Schichau, Elbing	1904	25.2.1905	7.1905	discarded 3.1920
S129	740	Schichau, Elbing	1904	4.3.1905	8.1905	wrecked 5.11.1915
S130, 9.1916- T130	741	Schichau, Elbing	1904	27.4.1905	9.1905	discarded 3.1921
S131, 9.1916- T131	742	Schichau, Elbing	1904	25.5.1905	10.1905	discarded 3.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	371
Displacement full, t	482
Length, m	64.7 oa 64.2 wl
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.76 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	6400
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 117
Endurance, nm(kts)	1080(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5)
Complement	61

Standard scale images

S126 1906

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

1910s, S126-128, 131: - 1 x 1 - 50/37; + 1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 1 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08 or 1 x 1 - 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 1 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

1910s, T130: - 3 x 1 - 50/37; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

Naval service