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KAISERLICHE MARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

1.BOOT motor torpedo boats with air propellers

Names

1.boot - 3.boot

Builders

Müggelwerft, Friedrichshagen

Commissioned

1917: all (for trials)

Losses

all three were never commissioned. 1.boot (10/10/1917), 2.boot (22/5/1918), 3. boot (7/1918)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

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Machinery

1.boot: 2 Maybach-HSLu petrol engines

2.boot, 3.boot: 3 Maybach-HSLu petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1.boot: 480

2.boot, 3.boot: 720

Max speed, kts

1.boot: 34

2.boot, 3.boot: 40

Fuel, t

petrol
Endurance, nm(kts) 400(40)

Armament

none; as designed: 1 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 - 450 TT

Complement 4

Ship project history: Designed by Brase in 1917. Composite hull ith one, later two steps. Boats had two or three aircraft petrol engines with 2.3m-diameter air propellers. All three boats were completed in 1917 but lost during extensive trials before commission by navy.

 

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