Torpedo boat type 35

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The Type 35 and Type 37 Torpedo boats were small destroyers or Flottentorpedoboot built for the Kriegsmarine between 1939 and 1942. They were designed to exploit a clause in the Washington Naval Treaty, which stipulated that ships under 600 tons standard displacement did not count towards limited tonnages. They did however grow in size to 845 tons standard tonnage. Their primary intention was to produce a seaworthy torpedo craft larger and more heavily armed than an S-boat. These ships fought in the North Sea, English Channel and Baltic Sea. They were not considered very successful their weak gun armament was disliked and the machinery was unreliable and difficult to repair. They also had realtively poor seakeeping and a weak bridge structure.

1 General Characteristics
2 Ships
- 2.1 Type 35
- 2.2 Type 37
3 References

[edit] General Characteristics

Displacement:
- Type 35 - 845 tons standard, 1090 tons full load
- Type 37 - 874 tons standard, 1121 tons full load
Length
- Type 35 - 84.3 m
- Type 37 - 85.2 m
Beam
- Type 35 - 8.62 m
- Type 37 - 8.87 m
Draught
- Type 35 - 2.83 m
- Type 37 - 2.8 m
Machinery - 2 shaft geared turbines - 4 Wagner type boilers
Speed - 35 knots
Range -
- Type 35 - 1200 nm at 19 knots
- Type 37 - 1600 nm at 19 knots
Armament
- 1 - 105 mm gun
- 1 - 37 mm gun
- 2 - 20 mm guns
- 6 - 21.7 inch torpedo tubes (2x3)
- 30 mines
Crew - 119

[edit] Ships

[edit] Type 35

Ship	Builder	Commissioned	Fate
T1	Schichau, Elbing	1 December 1939	Sunk 9 April 1945, by bombing in Kiel Harbour
T2	Schichau, Elbing	2 December 1939	Sunk 29 July 1944 by bombing in Bremen
T3	Schichau, Elbing	3 February 1940	Sunk in le Harve by bombing 18/9/40 but raised and repaired, Sunk by Mines in Danzig Bay 14 March 1945
T4	Schichau, Elbing	27 May 1940	Transferred to Denmark and scrapped post war
T5	Deschimag, Bremen	23 January 1940	Sunk by Mines in Danzig Bay 14 March 1945
T6	Deschimag, Bremen	30 April 1940	Sunk 7 November 1940
T7	Deschimag, Bremen	20 December 1939	Sunk 29 July 1944
T8	Deschimag	8 October 1939	Scuttled 3 May 1945
T9	Schichau, Elbing	4 July 1940	Scuttled 3 May 1945
T10	Schichau, Elbing	5 August 1940	Sunk in Gotenhaven by bombing 18 December 1944
T11	Deschimag	24 may 1940	War reparation to France. Served as Bir Hakiem in French Navy
T12	Deschimag	3 July 1940	Transferred to USSR, served in the Soviet Navy as the Podvischny until 1960

[edit] Type 37

All these ships were built by Schichau in Elbing

Ship	Commissioned	Fate
T13	31 May 1941	Sunk 10 April 1945
T14	14 June 1941	transferred to France as the Dompaire, BU 1949
T15	26 June 1941	Sunk 13 December 1945, by RAF Bombers
T16	24 July 1941	Damaged beyond repair by RAF Bombers 13 April 1945
T17	18 August 1941	to USSR post war, served as the Provisty until 1950's
T18	22 November 1941	Sunk 13 September 1944, by Soviet aircraft in the Baltic
T19	18 December 1942	transferred to Denmark after the war , Broken Up
T20	5 June 1942	Transferred to France as the Baccarat, BU 1951
T21	11 July 1942	to USA after the war Scuttled 10 June 1946

[edit] References

M.J Whitley, Destroyers of World War 2, 1988 Cassell Publishing ISBN 1 85409 521 8
- page on type 35 from German Navy.de
- page on type 37 from German Navy.de

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