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Z5 torpedo boats (1916-1917)


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, t310
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


<i>Z5</i> 1917
Z5 1917
<i>Z8</i> 1940
Z8 1940


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To the Second World War beginning torpedo boats were considered become outdated and were used as training and patrol ships.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.