S.M.S. Y (1884)

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Y (1884)
Builder: Yarrow & Company, Chiswick[1]
Work Number: 679[2]
Laid down: 1884[3]
Launched: 12 May, 1884[4]
Commissioned: 8 May, 1885[5]
Stricken: 30 January, 1899[6]
Sold: 1900[7]
Fate: Broken up
S.M.S. Y was a torpedo boat completed for the Imperial German Navy in 1885.

Construction

Y was a typical Yarrow & Company torpedo boat, and was launched at their Chiswick shipyard on 12 May, 1884.[8]

Service

Y was commissioned for experimental duties on 8 May, 1885 and subsequently served as a harbor torpedo boat as well. She was stricken on 30 January, 1899, sold the next year, and broken up at Hamburg.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

  • Two 37mm Hotchkiss machine guns
  • Two 350mm torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

[10][11]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  2. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 327.
  3. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.
  4. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  5. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  6. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  7. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  8. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  9. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 155.
  10. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 263.
  11. German Warships 1815-1945 I. p. 154.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Gröner, Erich (revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass) (1990). German Warships 1815-1945. Volume One: Major Surface Vessels. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1861760329. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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