S.M.S. G (1884)

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G (1884)
Builder: Germaniawerft, Kiel[1]
Work Number: 21[2]
Laid down: 1884[3]
Launched: 20 Dec 1884[4]
Commissioned: 9 Sep 1885[5]
Stricken: 30 Jan 1899[6]
Expended: post-1904[7]
Fate: Target vessel
S.M.S. G was a torpedo boat built for the Imperial German Navy in 1884-1885.

Construction

Launched at Germaniawerft, Kiel on 20 December, 1884.[8]

Service

G commissioned on 9 September, 1885 and served as a trials and training boat. She was stricken on 30 January, 1899 and used for subsidiary duties for several more years, including service from 1904 as a tender to the Helga. She was finally used as a target vessel and probably expended in that role.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • Two 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
  • Two 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[10][11]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  6. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  8. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  9. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  10. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 263.
  11. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.

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).
  • 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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