D 5 Class Torpedo Boat (1888)
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Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
D 5 | Schichau, Elbing | 1888 | 20 Oct, 1888 | 17 Apr, 1889 | Broken up 1921 |
D 6 | Schichau, Elbing | 1888 | 9 Feb, 1889 | 28 Jun, 1889 | Broken up 1921 |
Design & Construction
Galvanized steel construction with one triple expansion engine and two locomotive boilers.[1]
Performance
Armament
As Completed
- Six 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
- Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes
Post-1893
- Three 50mm/40 caliber quick-firing guns
- Three 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes
See Also
Footnotes
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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