S.M.S. D 7 (1891)

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S.M.S. D 7 (1891)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1]
Work Number: 441[2]
Laid down: 1890[3]
Launched: 6 May, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 25 Jul, 1891[5]
Stricken: 7 Dec, 1920[6]
Broken up: 1921[7]
S.M.S. D 7 was one of two D 7 Class divisional torpedo boats completed for the Imperial German Navy.

Construction

D 7 was launched on 6 May, 1891.[8]

Service

D 7 commissioned on on 25 July, 1891 and served as a torpedo boat and minesweeper flotilla flagship until 1908.[9]

During the spring of 1900, D 5 was flagship of the A. (V.) Torpedobootsdivision, an element of the I. Torpedobootsflotille.[10]

D 7 was overhauled at Schichau's Elbing yard during 1907, and was reboilered with new Marine-type boilers.[11]

D 7 served as a coast defense vessel during 1914 and a submarine training vessel in 1916. She was stricken on 7 December, 1920 and broken up in 1921 at Hamburg.[12]

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Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  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. p. 167.
  12. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 167.
  13. Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 24.


D 7 Class Divisional Torpedo Boat
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