Torpedo boats were used for many tasks during World War I. This torpedo boat belongs to the one of the largest production batches, type "A/III", with small changes in individual vessels. The "A 86" Torpedo Boat was built in "Vulcan" Shipyard in Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland). "A 86" was launched in March 1918. When fully equipped, the torpedo boat was deployed to the North Sa where she joined an escort group. At the end of World War I, boat was categorized as French war booty.
Historical outline
Torpedo boats were used for many tasks during World War I. Their versatility allowed them to cooperate with minesweepers when laying mine fields during fast raids and to protect small groups of ships or even to escort merchant ships. During WWI the Imperial German Navy, Kaiserliche Marine, included torpedo boats built according to similar projects. This enabled construction of ships in a very short time with high unification of components. This torpedo boat belongs to the one of the largest production batches, type "A/III", with small changes in individual vessels.
The "Kaisermarine" series torpedo Type "A" with a displacement of 150 tons has started to build in January 1915 in Hamburg. However, with the outbreak of the war the design assumptions have changed their bodies became more rapid and strong armed. The project series A / III of 1916 has been displacement of 350 tons and speed 27 - 29 knots and armed with two guns and rotary torpedo launcher. At the same time the ships were prepared to mine laying sea mines. Ships have been classified as a "torpedo coastal defense". Most of them were built in "Vulcan" Shipyard in Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland) and "Schichau" Elbing (now Elbląg in Poland) and their activity was directed to the north - eastern regions of the Baltic Sea. Our ship at the end of the First World War he was sent to the Base at Rosyth. Then directed to the Navy in 1920, France was the scrapped. She was different from the serial units and equipment masts the height of battle
General Characteristics – Specifications:
The ship production number "535" build in the yard “Vulcan” - WerkeAG in Szczecin, 1917.
Keel was founded: 05.02.1918
Launched: 16/03/1918
Length: 60.3 m
Width: 6.3 m
Draught: 2.3 m
Displacement: 330 tons - standard
Drive: 2 boilers and 2 turbines with the power of 5750 hp. 2 screws
Speed: 26.6 knots
Range: 800 nautical miles at a speed of 20 knots
Fuel supply 90 tons of fuel oil
Armament:
2 guns caliber 88mm (L/30 caliber)
1 torpedo tube caliber 450 mm
20 sea mines
Crew: 2 officers, 48 petty officers and seamen
4 40 mm Bofors AA guns (2xII)
4 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns (4xI)
4 Vickers depth charge launchers
