NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Z5		157	De Schelde, Vlissingen	2.1914	1.4.1915	2.1917	patrol 1931, to United Kingdom 1942-1945 (Blade), sold 10.1945
Z6		158	De Schelde, Vlissingen	2.1914	15.4.1915	2.1917	sold 2.1943
Z7		266	Fijenoord, Schiedam	5.1914	10.5.1915	9.1916	discarded 1944
Z8		267	Fijenoord, Schiedam	5.1914	23.6.1915	9.1916	discarded 1944

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	263
Displacement full, t	310
Length, m	58.5 pp
Breadth, m	6.06
Draught, m	1.71
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 80 + oil 7
Endurance, nm(kts)	425(20)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp No.4, 2 x 1 - 12.7/87, 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	46

Standard scale images

Project history

Z5-8 were ordered under the modified design. These torpedo boats were intended for service in colonies and differed by structure and type of machinery. If 1st series ships had 3 water-tube boilers with mixed coal-oil combustion and 2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 2nd series ships were equipped with outdate cylindrical boilers with mixed fuel combustion and VTEs. One, twin, torpedo mount placed aft, and two single were installed aside behind forecastle break, as on German contemporaries.

Z5 was converted in 1931 at Rotterdam to patrol ship for colonies.

Modernizations

1931, Z5: 1 boiler was removed, others were converted to pure oil (3000hp, 22kts, 100t of oil); - 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 2 x 1 - 450 TT, complement 34.

Naval service

To the Second World War beginning torpedo boats were considered become outdated and were used as training and patrol ships. All ships in May, 1940 escaped to Britain, Z5 since March, 1942 till 1945 was used by Royal Navy as auxiliary vessel for submarines combat training named Blade. All they were broken up in 1943-1947.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.