S.M.S. D 5 (1888)

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S.M.S. D 5 (1888)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 382[2]
Laid down: 1888[3]
Launched: 20 Oct, 1888[4]
Commissioned: 17 Apr, 1889[5]
Stricken: 7 Dec, 1920[6]
Broken up: 1921[7]
S.M.S. D 5 was one of two D 5 Class divisional torpedo boats completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Construction

D 5 was launched on 20 October, 1888.[8]

Service

D 5 commissioned on 17 April, 1889 and served as a torpedo boat flotilla flagship for the next fifteen years.[9]

During the spring of 1900, D 5 was flagship of the B. (IV.) Toruedobootsdivifiou., an element of the I. Torpedobootsflotille.[10]

D 5 was transferred to fisheries protection duties in 1905-1906 and was modernized at Schichau in 1910, receiving two new Marine-type boilers.[11] After completing her modernization she became a submarine flotilla flagship, then a submarine training vessel in 1914. D 10 was retained by the Reichsmarine after the Armistice and served in a minesweeping flotilla during 1919 before being stricken on 7 December, 1920 and broken up at Hamburg the next year.[12]

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Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 166.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  6. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  8. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  9. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  10. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 24.
  11. German Warships 1815-1945 I. pp. 166-167.
  12. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  13. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 24.


D 5 Class Divisional Torpedo Boat
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