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V150 and V152 1913

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
V150		274	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	1.8.1907	11.1907	collision 18.5.1915
V151, 9.1917- T151, 3.1937- Comet		275	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	14.9.1907	2/1908	dispatch vessel 3.1937, torpedo recovery vessel 4.1939
V152, 9.1917- T152		276	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	11.10.1907	4/1908	stricken 3.1931
V153, 9.1917- T153, 8.1938- Eduard Jungmann		277	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	13.11.1907	5/1908	TS 8.1938, surrendered 5.1945, to USA 12.1945, BU
V154, 9.1917- T154		278	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	19.12.1907	6/1908	stricken 10.1928
V155, 9.1917- T155		279	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	28.1.1908	6/1908	depot ship 10.1936
V156, 9.1917- T156		280	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	29.2.1908	7/1908	torpedo recovery vessel 1936
V157, 9.1917- T157		281	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	29.5.1908	8/1908	torpedo recovery vessel 1936
V158, 9.1917- T158		282	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	23.6.1908	10/1908	torpedo recovery vessel 1936, to USSR 1945 (Прозорливый [Prozorlivyy])
V159, 9.1917- T159		283	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	18.7.1908	11.1908	to United Kingdom 8.1920
V160, 9.1917- T160		284	Vulcan, Stettin	1907	12.9.1908	12.1908	to United Kingdom 8.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	558
Displacement full, t	691
Length, m	72.2 wl 72.5 oa
Breadth, m	7.80
Draught, m	3.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	10900
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 164
Endurance, nm(kts)	895(17)
Armament	V150 - 155: 2 x 1 - 88/32 SK L/35 C/01, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (4) V156 - 160: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (4)
Complement	84

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Project history

Built by AG Vulcan, Stettin who had a good reputation for its torpedo-boats and destroyers for the export market, they were the first German destroyers to have a single gun in the centreline on the forecastle.

Modernizations

1916 - 1917, V153, 155: - 2 x 1 - 88/32; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

1922 - 1924, T151: - 2 x 1 - 88/32, 3 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 1 x 2 - 500 TT

1922 - 1924, T153, 155: - 3 x 1 - 450 TT; + 1 x 2 - 500 TT

1922 - 1924, T154: - 2 x 1 - 88/32; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

1922 - 1924, T156 - 158: - 2 x 1 - 88/27; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

9/1940, Eduard Jungmann: was armed with 1 x 1 - 88/42 TK C/14, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/30

Naval service

V150 collided with V157 on Jade 18.5.1915. T151, T155, T156, T157 and T158 in 1936-1939 were converted to torpedo recovery vessels, TTs were thus removed and replaced by storage racks for 12 torpedoes. T156 in 1944 was renamed Bremse. T153 in 1938 was converted to rangefinder training ship Eduard Jungmann, armament was demounted and 6 rangefinder positions were arranged, in 1940 1 88mm/45 and 1-2 20mm guns were fitted. T155 was sunk 4.5.1945 by Soviet aircraft at Swinemünde. T156 (Bremse) was scuttled at Kiel 3.5.1945. T157 was lost 22.10.1943 on a mine at Hel peninsula. T158 on reparations was transferred to the USSR as Prozorlivy.