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The A-class torpedo boats were a class of German single-funnelled torpedo boat /light destroyer designed by the Reichsmarineamt for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War. The A designation was to avoid confusion with older classes and designs.
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The British Pathé clip of a news reel from the time, captured the attack by a German U-boat on 25 November 1941. At the time it was believed 859 crewmen died when the ship sank - it was later.
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The explosive charge of warheads in German torpedoes during WW2, were different compositions of the Schießwolle (SW) that consisted mainly of a mixture of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and Hexanitrodiphenylamin (HND): Schießwolle 18: 60% Trinitrotoluol, 24% Hexanitrodiphenylamin, 16% Aluminumpowder
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All the German U-boat torpedoes were 53.3cm (21 inch) in diameter and had a warhead of 280kg (The T5 had 274kg). There were also two important pattern-running devices which could be applied to various torpedo types.. The FAT (Federapparat Torpedo) ran a wandering course with regular 180-degree turns, was useful against convoys, and was.
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Torpedo Junction In the spring of 1942, German U-boats prowled the ocean off the Outer Banks of North Carolina and sank freighters at will. By June, they had sunk 397 merchant vessels and the area earned the name "Torpedo Junction." The losses by submarines off our Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean now threaten our entire war effort.
World War II. German torpedo being loaded on the French Atlantic
Germany built over 300 torpedo boats until the end of World War I, and several of them were lost because of enemy actions. 50 of the most modern ones were interned in Scapa Flow and scuttled there in June of 1919, only a few of them were not sunk.
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The German torpedo boats of World War II were armed principally, if not exclusively, with torpedoes and varied widely in size. They were not small schnellboote (known to the Allies as E-boats) but small seagoing vessels, the larger of which were comparable to destroyers.
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The A-class torpedo boats were a class of single-funnelled torpedo boat or light destroyer designed for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War. Six groups of vessels were built under the class between 1914 and 1918, increasing in displacement from 109 tons to 335 tons. Divisional torpedo boats
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The German civilian statesmen had temporarily prevailed over the naval high command, which advocated "unrestricted" submarine warfare. World War I - Naval Battles, U-Boats, Blockades: The first significant naval battle was at Helgoland Bight in August of 1914. Naval warfare included warships and submarines, and all shipping could be targeted.
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Torpedoboot 1885. The first large class of torpedo boats in the German Navy. In the 1880s, the German Navy ordered several different torpedoboats from different shipyards which were all based on different designs. The idea was to test the various designs to find out which kind of boat would be best to use for this new weapon.
German torpedo boat T35. Was taken by the US post war as part of war
The German large, or ocean-going, torpedo boats and destroyers of World War I were built by the Imperial German Navy between 1899 and 1918 as part of its quest for a "High Seas" or ocean-going fleet. At the start of the First World War Germany had 132 such ships, and ordered a further 216 during the conflict, 112 of which were actually completed.
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Torpedoboot 1923 The torpedoboats of the Raubvogel class were the first six torpedo boats build in Germany after World War I. Although still based on World War I designs, those torpedo boats were much bigger than their wartime predecessors and proved to be very unproblematic ships.
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SMS S24 [a] [b] was a V1 -class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. The ship was built by Schichau-Werke, at their Elbing shipyard, completing in 1913. S24 served as part of the German High Seas Fleet through the First World War, taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
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Large Torpedo Boats/Torpedo Boat Destroyers - Part 1 of 2. Part 1 - Losses by Year and Theatre - August 1914 Strength. torpedo boat flotillas, and as coastal defence boats, patrol and escort, tender, and training boats. S.129, 5th November 1915, German North Sea coast, at the mouth of the River Elbe (53-59'N, 08-21'E) - ran aground.
A prewar Schnellboot/ Eboat/ Sboat, the German small torpedo boats
The six Type 23 torpedo boats (also known as the Raubvogel (German:"Bird of prey") class) were developed from earlier designs shortly after World War I and came into service in 1926 and 1927. All built by the Naval Dockyard at Wilhelmshaven, they were named Albatross, Falke, Greif, Kondor, Möwe and Seeadler.
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Torpedo Boats The development of German torpedo boats of World War II was centered around the classic concept of using those kind of ships similar to World War I. The key idea was to execute torpedo attacks on other, bigger surface vessels as it was done during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
