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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Z1		141	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	11.1915	1917	12.1919	stricken 1933
Z2		142	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	11.1915	1917	1.1921	stricken 1933
Z3		143	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	12.1915	23.3.1917	8.1920	scuttled 14.5.1940
Z4		144	Nederlandse Dok- en Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam	12.1915	1917	4.1920	stricken 1933

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	277
Displacement full, t	322
Length, m	61.0 pp 62.6 oa
Breadth, m	6.20
Draught, m	1.90 normal 2.50 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 AEG-Vulkan steam turbines, 3 Marine boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 72 + oil 9
Endurance, nm(kts)	425(20)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/37 Krupp No.4, 2 x 1 - 12.7/87, 1 x 2 - 450 TT, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	46

Standard scale images

Project history

A series from 4 torpedo boats (Z1-4) was ordered in 1914 to German Vulkan. With the beginning of the First World War ships have been requisitioned and commissioned by Kaiserliche Marine as V105-108. Instead of them new ships were ordered to Dutch shipbuilders under the same design, received former numbers Z1-4. Later Z5-8 were ordered under the modified design. These torpedo boats were intended for service in colonies and differed by structure and type of machinery. If 1st series ships had 3 water-tube boilers with mixed coal-oil combustion and 2 AEG-Vulkan steam turbines, 2nd series ships were equipped with outdate cylindrical boilers with mixed fuel combustion and VTEs. One, twin, torpedo mount placed aft, and two single were installed aside behind forecastle break, as on German contemporaries.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

To the Second World War beginning Z3 was considered become outdated and was used as training and patrol ship. Z3 was destroyed by crew at Enkhuizen 14.5.1940 to avoid capture by Germans.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.