S.M.S. S 125 (1904)

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S.M.S. S 125 (1904)
Builder: Schichau, Elbing[1][2]
Work Number: 723[3]
Laid down: 1903[4]
Launched: 19 May, 1904[5]
Commissioned: 4 Apr, 1905[6]
Stricken: 26 Oct, 1920[7]
Sold: 13 May, 1921[8]
Fate: Broken up
S.M.S. S 125 was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1905.

Construction

S 125 was launched on 19 May, 1904.[9]

Service

S 125 commissioned on 4 April, 1905. She served as a coastal defense vessel in 1914 and was renamed T 125 on 27 September, 1916. She served in patrol and escort flotillas in 1917-1918 and was retained after the Armistice in the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine. T 125 was stricken on 26 October, 1920 and was broken up at Hamburg-Moorburg after being sold on 13 May, 1921 for 215,000M.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

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

[11][12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 265.
  2. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 170.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 170.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 170.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  6. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  8. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  9. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  10. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 171.
  11. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 264.
  12. 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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