Elbing class torpedo boat
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| Flottentorpedoboot 1939 |  |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Type: | Fleet Torpedo Boat |
| Displacement: | 1,755 tons (maximum) |
| Length: | 102.50 metres (overall); 97 metres (waterline) |
| Beam: | 10 metres |
| Draught: | 3.22 metres |
| Propulsion: | 2 Wagner geared turbines driving 2 shafts, 32,560 shp |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots |
| Range: | 2,400 sea miles at 19 knots |
| Complement: | 205 |
| Armament: | 4 x 105 mm 4 x 37 mm 9 x 20 mm 6 x 533 mm torpedo tubes 50 mines |
| Armour: | |
The Elbing class torpedo boats (or Flottentorpedoboot 1939) were a class of fifteen small warships that served in the Kriegsmarine in World War II. Although classed as Flottentorpedoboot by the Germans, in most respects - displacement, weaponry, usage - they were comparable to contemporary British destroyers.
Srvice was either in the Baltic or western France.
The design and weapons mix resulted from experience of earlier, specialised classes. The Elbings were a radical change to an all-purpose vessel capable of torpedo attacks, anti-aircraft defence and escort duties.
They were effective fighting vessels, a notable success being the sinking of the British cruiser HMS Charybdis and escort destroyer HMS Limbourne by torpedos, off Brittany in late 1943. The 4th TorpedoBoat Flotilla (T22, T23, T25, T25 and T26) had been protecting an important blockade runner.
Construction of the class took place in the Schichau shipyards in Elbing (now Elbląg). The first examples were commissioned in late 1942 and the last in late 1944.
[edit] The ships
The ships were unnamed, but numbered T22 to T36.
| Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate | |
| T22 | 1940 | 1941 | 28 Feb 1942 | sunk 18 August 1944 |
| T23 | 1940 | 14 June 1941 | 14 June 1942 | scrapped February 1955 |
| T24 | 1940 | 13 September 1941 | 17 October 1942 | sunk 24 August 1944 |
| T25 | 1940 | 1 December 1941 | 12 December 1942 | sunk 28 December 1943 |
| T26 | 1941 | 18.02.1942 | 27.02.1943 | sunk 28.12.1943 |
| T27 | 1941 | 20.08.1942 | 17.04.1943 | sunk 04.05.1944 |
| T28 | 1941 | 24.06.1942 | 19.06.1943 | scrapped 1959 |
| T29 | 1942 | 16.01.1943 | 21.08.1943 | sunk 26.04.1944 |
| T30 | 1942 | 13 March1943 | 24 October 1943 | sunk 18.08.1944 |
| T31 | 1942 | 22.05.1943 | 5 February 1944 | sunk 20.06.1944 |
| T32 | 1942 | 17 July1943 | 8 May 1944 | sunk 18.08.1944 |
| T33 | 1942 | 04.09.1943 | 15.06.1944 | scrapped 1957-1958 |
| T34 | 1942 | 23.10.1943 | 12 August 1944 | sunk 24.11.1944 |
| T35 | 1942 | 11 December 1943 | 7 October 1944 | scrapped 3 October 1952 |
| T36 | 1942 | 5 February 1944 | 09.12.1944 | sunk 05.05.1945 |
[edit] References
- Jackson, Robert (2001). Kriegsmarine The llustrated history of the German Navy in WWII. London: Aurum Press, pp163-164. ISBN 1-85410-746-1.
- Kriegsmarine Flottentorpedoboot 1939. Retrieved on 17 October 2006.
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