S 120 Class Torpedo Boat (1904)

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Five S 120 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1904.

Overview of 5 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
S 120 Schichau, Elbing 1903 10 Feb, 1904 7 May, 1904 Sold 28 May, 1921
S 121 Schichau, Elbing 1903 3 Mar, 1904 17 Jun, 1904 Sold 13 Jun, 1921
S 122 Schichau, Elbing 1903 23 Apr, 1904 5 Aug, 1904 Mined 5 Oct, 1918
S 123 Schichau, Elbing 1903 25 Jun, 1904 23 Aug, 1904 Mined 1 May, 1916
S 124 Schichau, Elbing 1903 3 Aug, 1904 8 Oct, 1904 Collision 30 Nov, 1914

Design & Construction

Performance

Armament

  • Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Four 450mm torpedo tubes, five torpedoes

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 169.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.


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