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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
G169, 9.1917- T169		138	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1908	29.12.1908	4.1909	to United Kingdom 8.1920
G170, 9.1917- T170		139	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1908	3.3.1909	7.1909	discarded 3.1921
G171		142	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1908	28.5.1909	1.1910	collision 14.9.1912
G172, 9.1917- T172		143	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1908	10.7.1909	1.1910	sunk 7.7.1918
G173, 9.1917- T173		144	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1908	28.7.1909	1.1910	to United Kingdom 9.1920
G174, 2.1918- T174		145	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1909	8.1.1910	7.1910	to United Kingdom 8.1920
G175, 2.1918- T175		146	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1909	24.2.1910	12/1910	stricken 9.1926

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	G169 - 172: 670 G173 - 175: 700
Displacement full, t	G169 - 172: 777 G173: 778 G174, 175: 824
Length, m	74.0
Breadth, m	7.90
Draught, m	G169 - 172: 2.82 G173: 2.78 G174, 175: 3.04
No of shafts	G169 - 172: 3 G173 - 175: 2
Machinery	G169 - 172: 6 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers G173: 2 Zoelly steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers G174, 175: 2 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	15000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	G169 - 173: coal 125 + oil 84 G174, 175: coal 145 + oil 80
Endurance, nm(kts)	G169 - 172: 1250(17) G173: 1280(17) G174, 175: 920(17)
Armament	G169 - 173: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (4) G174, 175: 2 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08, 4 x 1 - 500 TT (5)
Complement	84

Standard scale images

Project history

These Germania boats had the same hull but different turbine systems and therefore different funnel positions. Unusually for German practice part of them had 3 shafts. G 169-G 173 belonged to the last group of the 1908 fiscal year, and the remaining two to the 1909 programme.

Modernizations

1916 - 1917, G170, 172 - 175: - 2 x 1 - 88/27; + 2 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

Naval service

G171 collided 14.9.1912 with battleship Zähringen in the North Sea and sunk. T172 was mined in the North Sea 7.7.1918.