NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S49		939	Schichau, Elbing	1914	10.4.1915	7.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S50		940	Schichau, Elbing	1914	24.4.1915	8.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S51		941	Schichau, Elbing	1914	29.4.1915	9.1915	interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to United Kingdom
S52		942	Schichau, Elbing	1914	12.6.1915	9.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S53		943	Schichau, Elbing	1914	18.9.1915	12.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S54		944	Schichau, Elbing	1914	11.10.1915	1/1916	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S55		945	Schichau, Elbing	1914	6.11.1915	3/1916	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S56		945	Schichau, Elbing	1914	11.12.1915	4/1916	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S57		947	Schichau, Elbing	1914	8.1.1916	5/1916	sunk 10.11.1916
S58		948	Schichau, Elbing	1914	5.2.1916	6/1916	sunk 11.11.1916
S59		949	Schichau, Elbing	1914	16.2.1916	7/1916	sunk 11.11.1916
S60		950	Schichau, Elbing	1915	3.4.1916	8/1916	interned 11.1918, beached 21.6.1919, to Japan
S61		951	Schichau, Elbing	1915	8.4.1916	9/1916	scuttled 2.11.1918
S62		952	Schichau, Elbing	1915	13.5.1916	11/1916	sunk 10.7.1918
S63		953	Schichau, Elbing	1915	27.5.1916	12/1916	discarded 11.1919, to Italy 5.1920 (Ardimentoso)
S64		954	Schichau, Elbing	1915	21.8.1916	3/1917	sunk 18.10.1917
S65		955	Schichau, Elbing	1915	14.10.1916	4/1917	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
S66		956	Schichau, Elbing	1915	21.11.1916	5/1917	sunk 10.7.1918

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	S49 - 52: 802 S53 - 66: 919
Displacement full, t	S49 - 52: 1074 S53 - 66: 1170
Length, m	S49 - 52: 79.6 oa 79.0 wl S53 - 66: 83.1 oa 82.5 wl
Breadth, m	8.36
Draught, m	S49 - 52: 3.64 S53 - 66: 3.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	S49 - 52: 2 Schichau steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers S53 - 66: COSOS: 2 Schichau steam turbines / 1 cruising steam turbine on one shaft, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	24000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	S49 - 52: oil 252 S53 - 66: oil 305
Endurance, nm(kts)	S49 - 52: 1605(17) S53 - 66: 2450(14)
Armament	S49 - 59: 3 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines S60 - 66: 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines
Complement	85

Standard scale images

Project history

Belonged to the wartime mobilization programme, S49 and S50 being the replacements for S35 and S36. The enlarged S53-66 had a cruising turbine on the starboard shaft and carried more oil.

Modernizations

1916, S53-56: - 3 x 1 - 88/42; + 3 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16 or TK L/45 C/16

Naval service

S62 was lost in action; S57 (10.11.1916), S58 (11.11.1916), S59 (11.11.1916) were mined in the Gulf of Finland, S64 was mined in Northern Baltic 18.10.1917, S66 was mined in the North Sea 10.7.1918. S61 was scuttled during the German retreat from Belgium 2.11.1918 in Terneuzen Canal (Flanders); S60 which was beached at Scapa Flow became a Japanese war reparation and was scrapped in England in 1920; S63 became an Italian war reparation and served under the name Ardimentoso until 1937.