NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
S120, 9.1916- T120		718	Schichau, Elbing	1903	10.2.1904	5.1904	discarded 3.1921
S121, 9.1916- T121		719	Schichau, Elbing	1903	3.3.1904	6.1904	discarded 3.1920
S122, 9.1916- T122		720	Schichau, Elbing	1903	23.4.1904	8.1904	sunk 5.10.1918
S123		721	Schichau, Elbing	1903	25.6.1904	8.1904	sunk 1.5.1916
S124		722	Schichau, Elbing	1903	3.8.1904	10.1904	collision 30.11.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	391
Displacement full, t	468
Length, m	64.7 oa 64.2 wl
Breadth, m	7.00
Draught, m	2.63 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	S120-123: 2 VTE, 3 Marine boilers S124: 2 VTE, 3 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	6400
Max speed, kts	27.5
Fuel, t	coal 115
Endurance, nm(kts)	1500(17)
Armament	3 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (5)
Complement	61

Standard scale images

Project history

Apart from the experimental turbine vessel (another was building at the end of the period), these units, classed as large torpedo boats but, despite their lighter guns, really the equivalent of contemporary foreign destroyers, show a large degree of homogeneity. They all shared the 'trade mark' of the torpedo tube placed before the bridge in a well deck between the raised forecastle and the charthouse. All had two funnels. In fact this design was a combination of the best features of the D9 and the D10, of the German torpedo boat traditional design, and of the British destroyer. The result was a sturdy and seaworthy vessel, not as fast as foreign boats, but probably more useful than most.

Modernizations

1910s, S120-123: - 1 x 1 - 50/37; + 1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89 or 1 x 1 - 88/27 TK L/30 C/08 or 1 x 1 - 88/32 SK L/35 C/01 or 1 x 1 - 88/42 TK L/45 C/14

Naval service

T122 was sunk by mine 5.10.1918 in the North Sea. S123 was mined in the North Sea 1.5.1916. S124 sank after collision with Danish s/s Anglodane 30.11.1914 in the Baltic Sea, later salvaged and scrapped.