''V106'' was a
torpedo boat of the
Imperial German Navy, built in the A.G Vulcan Shipyard in 1914. She was originally ordered by the
Dutch Navy and confiscated by Germany at the start of
World War I; being scrapped in 1920.
Design
''V106'' was designed by Stettiner Maschinenbau
A.G. Vulcan shipyard as a
torpedo boat for the Dutch Navy, as part one in a class of four sister ships (''Z-1'' to ''Z-4''). She was
long overall
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and
at the waterline, with a
beam
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of and a maximum
draught of .
[Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 170.] Displacement
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was normal and full load. Two oil-fired and two coal-fired
Yarrow boilers fed steam at to 2 direct-drive
steam turbine
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s rated at , giving a speed of .
[Gröner 1983, p. 62.] of coal and of oil were carried, giving a range of at or at .
She was designed to carry an armament of two 75 mm (3-inch) guns and four 450 mm
torpedo tubes,
[Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 368.] but she was completed with an armament of two
5.2 cm SK L/55 guns (capable of firing a shell to a range of
[Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 140.]) and two 450 mm torpedo tubes.
History
''V106'' was originally ordered by the
''Koninklijke Marine'' (Dutch Navy) as the
torpedo boat ''Z-2'' (along with her sister ships ''Z-1'', ''Z-3'' and ''Z-4''), one of four ' (Dutch: Very large) torpedo boats to be built by A.G. Vulcan in their
Stettin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin language, Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Po ...
, Germany (now in Poland) shipyard. The four ships were taken over while still under construction on 10 August 1914 owing to the outbreak of the
First World War.
She was
launched on 26 August 1915 and commissioned in the
''Kaiserliche Marine'' (German Navy) on 25 January 1915.
She was used as a training vessel and a
tender during the war.
She, along with sister ship , was allocated to Brazil in the
Treaty of Versailles, but was almost immediately sold and broken up for scrap in Britain in 1920.
[Gardiner and Gray 1985, pp. 403, 406.]
See also
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German ocean-going torpedo boats of World War I
; Sister ships
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ORP Mazur
ORP ''Mazur'' was a torpedo boat, then gunnery training ship of the Polish Navy. She was the former German torpedo boat ''V-105''.Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–192Google Books page/ref> She took part in the Polish Defensive War ...
(ex-V105)
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ORP Kaszub (1921) (ex-V108)
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SMS V107
References
Notes
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External links
* http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/german_destroyers.htm
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Ships built in Stettin
1914 ships
World War I torpedo boats of Germany
Torpedo boats of the Imperial German Navy