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LM boats after WW I

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
L14 - 15, 12.1917- LM14 - 15; LM16, 1926- UZ(S)20; LM27, 1926- UZ(S)16; LM28, 1926- UZ(S)17; LM29, 30	Max Oertz, Hamburg: L14 - 15, LM16, 27-30	1917: L14, 15 1918: LM16 1919: LM27, 28	BU incomplete: LM29, 30	Columbia, 1933: UZ(17), UZ(20) (B, D)	1919: LM15 1.1921: LM14 8.1930: UZ(S)16

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	6.8
Displacement full, t
Length, m	16.5
Breadth, m	2.42
Draught, m	0.60
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Maybach HS petrol engines
Power, h. p.	720
Max speed, kts	31.6
Fuel, t	petrol 1600 l
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 - 450 TT
Complement	7

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Project history

All boats had aircraft motors. Unlike British boats the German have been armed by one fixed bow TT instead of stern cradles. LM-type boats were used for coast defence, 14 were based on Belgium coast and 7 on Baltic.

Modernizations

1926, UZ(S)16: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (780hp)

1926, UZ(S)17: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (680hp = 1x260hp + 2x210hp)

1926, UZ(S)20: engines were replaced by 3 Mercedes-Benz (740hp)

Naval service

LM16 was rebuilt to despatch boat Max in 1921 but reverted to Navy as ASW boat in 1926. LM27 and LM28 were never commissioned by the navy, reclassified to auxiliary boats in 1922 and reverted to combat boats in 1926.