Austro-Hungarian TORPEDO SHIPS

Laid down:
Launched: Take over:
14/09/1895 21/03/1896 05/07/1896
Builder: F. Schichau, Elbing, Germany
Costs: 1,131,147 K
Sister ships: Had not
Displacement: 485.04 t constr (from 1916: 491.10 t constr)
544.00 t (full load)
Length: 67.50 m (pp) / 71.00 m (oa); (from 1916: 68.82 m (oa))
Beam: 8.20 m
Draught: 3.30 m aft
Machinery: 2 three-cylinder triple expansion vertical steam engine
4 Thornycroft-Schulz-type water tube boilers, operating pressure:
14 atm
2 propellers, diameter: 2.50 m
Bunkerage: 105 t coal
Endurance: 4,000 nm at 10 kts; 2,000 nm at 12 kts
Performance: 5,776 ihp
Speed: 25.97 kts at 283 rpm; 12 kts 122 rpm
Armament: 6 qf guns, cal: 4,7 cm/L44
3 - 45 cm torpedo tubes on deck
Armament from 1916: 2 guns, cal: 7 cm/L45
4 qf guns, cal: 4.7 cm/L45
1 - 8 mm machinegun
3 45 cm torpedo tubes on deck
Others: 2 - 40 cm diameter searchlights.
Characteristics: Ram. Relative low hull, raised forecastle. 1 mast, 2 smoke stack.
Complement: In 1907: 5 + 75.
Career:
14/09/ 1895 The building was started.
In March of 1896 her name was confirmed. 21/03 She was launched. 14/06 Towed to Pillau
for docking. 26/06 Carried out the official sea trial run for the take over, during which made
25.97 knots. Her average speed was 1.72 knots more than the requirements of the contract.
She was the A-H Fleet’s quickest ship in this time. 4/07 She was completed. 5/07 The Navy
took her over. 11/07 Was commissioned. 14/07 Sailed from Pillau. 16/07 Put in Holtenau.
22-26/07 Gibraltar. 30/07 – 1/08 Corfu. 2/08 Arrived at Pola. 4/08 She was decommissioned.
Her armament and torpedo tubes were built in.
6-12/03/1897
Carried out sea trial runs off Pola, during which she made 25.35 knots. Her bow
wave was very small. The deck under the quick firing guns was strengthened. 17/08 The boiler
got out of order. 18/09 Her repair was completed. 26/11 Was commissioned and sailed
from Pola for the blockade of Crete. 27/11 Called at Teodo. 30/11 – 2/12 Corfu. 3/12 –
18/01/1898 Suda-bay. 19/01 – 17/02 Suda-bay. 18-28/02 Smyrna. 1/03 – 12/04 Suda-bay.
16/04 Arrived at Pola. 1/05 – 8/12 She was the flagship of Torpedo Flotilla and Rear-admiral
Franz Ritter Perin von Worgenburg in the Summer Squadron.
2 /01 – 30/04/1899 Served in the Squadron. 2/06 Was decommissioned and put into reserve.
In 1900 was in reserve and her boilers were overhauled.
7 /04/1901 Sailed from Pola with the Squadron. 9-11/04 Patras. 12-13/04 Csanak Kaleh. 13/05
– 8/06 Constantinople. 8/06 – 4/08 Yeniköi. 4-5/08 Eregli. 5-6/08 Gallipoli. 6-7/08 Takfurd-
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