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Revision as of 14:09, 3 May 2016

Six S 1 class torpedo boats were completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1884-1885. They were the first of a long line of torpedo craft built by Schichau-Werke.

Design & Construction

Performance

The S 1s were the best seaboats of the 1884-1885 series of torpedo boats.[1]

Armament

As Built

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

[2][3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 263.
  3. 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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