S.M.S. D 10 (1898)

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S.M.S. D 10 (1898)
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company, Chiswick[1]
Laid down: 1896[2]
Launched: 24 Mar, 1898[3]
Commissioned: 13 Oct, 1898[4]
Stricken: 28 Jul, 1922[5]
Broken up: c. late 1922[6]
D 10 was a divisional torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1898.

Construction

According to U.S. Navy intelligence reports, D 10 was ordered "in order to ascertain by special trials if the English manufacturers really can give to their torpedo-boat destroyers a speed so much in excess of that obtained by the German manufacturers."[7]

Galvanized steel construction with two triple expansion engines and three Thornycroft boilers. Launched by John I. Thornycroft & Company on 24 March, 1898, D 10's overall design was very similar to destroyers built by John I. Thornycroft & Company for the Royal Navy such as the Coquette and the Stag, to the point that Gröner calls her a sister ship of those vessels.[8][9]

On a builder's trial D 10 made 28.54 knots over the measured mile of Maplin carrying a load of 84 tons, benefiting from an ebb tide and running with the current.[10]

Service

D 10 was commissioned on 13 October 1898. She earned the nickname Schlingerpott (Roll Pot), and her fixed bow torpedo tube reduced her seaworthiness and was removed at some point after commissioning.[11][12]

Her trials ran from her arrival in Germany in October 1898 until the spring of 1899, during which time she repeatedly failed to meet the German requirements "that the boat should carry a load equivalent to her war equipment, including 40 tons of coal in her bunkers, and that the trial should be made with German machinists and stokers. Under such requirements the contractors would only guarantee a speed of 27.5 knots." After her funnels were lengthened and new propellers fitted, D 10 finally achieved her contract speed and was accepted into fleet service. Due to D 10's disappointing performance compared to Schichau's craft, "the German Government decided to order no more boats from England".[13]

In 1900, D 10 was flagship of the II. Torpedobootsflotille.[14]

D 10 was reboilered in 1906, receiving three Yarrow boilers. The next year she became a tender for the German Navy's submarine acceptance committee. She returned to flotilla flagship duties after the outbreak of war in 1914, this time for U-boat flotillas, and she also undertook coastal defense operations. During 1915, D 10 again became a submarine support vessel, this time as a training ship as well as an acceptance tender. After war's end she was reduced to a barracks ship in 1919, stricken on 28 July, 1922, and broken up before the end of the year at Wilhelmshaven.[15]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

As Completed

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

[17]

After Refit, date uncertain

  • Five 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
  • Two 450mm torpedo tubes, three torpedoes

[18][19]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  2. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  3. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  4. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  5. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  6. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  7. ↑ Notes on Naval Progress, p. 68.
  8. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  9. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  10. ↑ Notes on Naval Progress, p. 68.
  11. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  12. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  13. ↑ Notes on Naval Progress, pp. 68-69.
  14. ↑ Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 25.
  15. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  16. ↑ Rangliste der deutschen Reichsmarine, Mai 1900. p. 25.
  17. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.
  18. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  19. ↑ German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 168.

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.
  • Office of Naval Intelligence (1899). Notes on Naval Progress. November, 1899. Washington: Government Printing Office.
  • Marine-Kabinett (1900). Rang- und Quartierliste der Kaiserliche Deutschen Marine für das Jahr 1900. Nach dem Stande vom 8, Mai 1900. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn.


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