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G101

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
G101 (ex-Santiago)		211	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	12.8.1914	3.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G102 (ex-San Luis)		212	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	16.9.1914	4.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G103 (ex-Santa Fé)		213	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	14.11.1914	5.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919
G104 (ex-Tucuman)		214	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1914	28.11.1914	6.1915	interned 11.1918, scuttled 21.6.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1116
Displacement full, t	1734
Length, m	95.3 oa 94.0 wl
Breadth, m	9.47
Draught, m	3.84
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Germania steam turbines, 3 doubled oil-burning boilers
Power, h. p.	28000
Max speed, kts	33.5
Fuel, t	oil 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	2420(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14, 2 x 2 - 500 TT, 2 x 1 - 500 TT (8), 24 mines
Complement	104

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Project history

Ordered for the Argentine Navy with cruising diesels, 10.2cm guns and 53.3cm torpedoes, they were seized by the Imperial German Navy and commissioned on the outbreak of war. Like the B97 class they were referred to as 'destroyers'.

Modernizations

1916, G101, 103, 104: - 4 x 1 - 88/42; + 4 x 1 - 105/43 TK L/45 C/16

1916, G102: - 4 x 1 - 88/42; + 4 x 1 - 105/42 Utof L/45 C/16

Naval service

No significant events.