| Career (German Empire) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | SMS V108 |
| Launched: | 12 December 1914 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Poland, September 1921 |
| Career (Poland) | |
| Name: | ORP Kaszub |
| Acquired: | September 1921 |
| Fate: | destroyed by a boiler explosion, 20 July 1925 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | V105-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 340 metric tons (330 long tons) |
| Length: | 62 m (203.4 ft) |
| Beam: | 6.2 m (20.3 ft) |
| Draft: | 2.5 m (8.2 ft) |
| Installed power: | 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts, AEG-Vulcan Steam turbines |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range: | 1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Armament: |
2 × 1 - 88 mm (3.5 in) guns |
ORP "Kaszub" - torpedo boat (former V-108 [1] of Kaiserliche Marine), one of the first ships of the Polish Navy recreated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. In service from 1921 to 1925.
She was built in 1914 by Stettiner Maschinenbau A.G. Vulcan in Stettin, Germany (now in Poland). She was begun for a Dutch Navy order, as Z-4 (along with three sister ships Z-1,Z-2,Z-3), but after the outbreak of World War I she was confiscated by Germany and commissioned as torpedo boat V-108[1], taking an active part in World War I, fighting in the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy.
When the German Imperial Navy was divided among victorious powers in 1919 after World War I, Poland was granted six torpedo boats, among them V-108. The ship, then located in Britain, was overhauled there and arrived in Poland in October, 1921, officially entering into service.
The ship was sunk by a boiler explosion on July 20, 1925[1][2]. The causes are unknown to this day. 3 crewmen died.