KRIEGSMARINE SHIPS
TORPEDOBOATS
Torpedoboot 1924
The Raubtier - class was a slightly improved Raubvogel class and build immediately after them. Although it was first intended to use 12,7 cm guns on those ships, they were finally equipped with a modernized 10,5 cm gun.
They showed the same pros and cons than their predecessors and were used in the same operational area. The ships got the same updates and improvements than their predecessors, the Raubvogel class.
Wolf
Torpedoboot 1928 - 1941 Torpedoboot 1924 "Raubtier" Class
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 08.03.1927
Launched: 12.10.1927
Commissioned: 15.11.1928
Fate: sunk on 08.01.1941
Iltis
Torpedoboot 1928 - 1942
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 08.03.1927
Launched: 12.10.1927
Commissioned: 01.10.1928
Fate: sunk on 13.05.1942
Luchs
Torpedoboot 1929 - 1940 Torpedoboot 1924 "Raubtier" Class
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 02.04.1927
Launched: 15.03.1928
Commissioned: 15.04.1929
Fate: sunk on 26.07.1940
Tiger
Torpedoboot 1929 - 1939 Torpedoboot 1924 "Raubtier" Class
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 02.04.1927
Launched: 15.03.1928
Commissioned: 15.01.1929
Fate: sunk on 25.08.1939
Jaguar
Torpedoboot 1929 - 1944 Torpedoboot 1924 "Raubtier" Class
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 04.05.1927
Launched: 15.03.1928
Commissioned: 01.06.1929
Fate: sunk on 15.06.1944
Leopard
Torpedoboot 1928 - 1940 Torpedoboot 1924 "Raubtier" Class
Laid down: Marinewerft Wilhlemshaven, 04.05.1927
Launched: 15.03.1928
Commissioned: 01.06.1928
Fate: sunk on 30.04.1940
Torpedoboot 1935
The Torpedo boats of the "Torpedoboot 1935" class were the first ships of this kind after 10 years. First designs for this ships were made at the end of 1933. Although officially called 600t ships, the ships were over 50% bigger.
Unlike their predecessors, those ships were a unsuccessful design. Because of a required high top speed, high pressure turbines had to be installed and proved to be as troublesome as those of the destroyers and heavy cruisers. Even worse, the small dimensions of those ships made it even harder to maintain or repair the troublesome engine system.
Their primary weapon system was the torpedo, therefore the concentration of a high number of torpedo tubes, only one 10,5 cm gun and the light Flak protection made the ships very vulnerable and not very useful in other tasks than torpedo attacks.
Caused by the need to keep the boats size blow the allowed 600 ts, first trials show that the light construction first made them very bad seagoing vessels, and it took up to the end of 1940 to solve this problem but even then their second offensive potential - the mines - could only be used during light seas. Some ships replaced one torpedo launcher with additional Flak guns later in the war, Funkmeßortungsgeräte (Radar) was only added in 1945 although passive radar detectors were refitted earlier.
Most of the ships were used for training submarine commanders in the Baltic Sea, some even were put into reserve status since there was no use for them during wartime.
T1
Torpedoboot 1939 - 1945 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: F. Schichau Elbing, 14.11.1936
Launched: 19.02.1938
Commissioned: 02.12.1939
Fate: sunk 09.04.1945
T2
Torpedoboot 1939 - 1946 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: F. Schichau Elbing, 14.11.1936
Launched: 07.04.1938
Commissioned: 09.12.1939
Fate: scrapped 1946
T3
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1945 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: F. Schichau Elbing, 14.11.1936
Launched: 23.06.1938
Commissioned: 03.04.1940
Fate: sunk 14.03.1945
T4
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1952 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: F. Schichau Elbing, 29.12.1936
Launched: 15.04.1938
Commissioned: 27.05.1940
Fate: scrapped February 1952
T5
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1945 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 30.12.1936
Launched: 22.11.1937
Commissioned: 23.01.1940
Fate: sunk after mine hit 14.03.1945
T6
Torpedoboot 1940 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 09.01.1937
Launched: 16.12.1937
Commissioned: 30.04.1940
Fate: sunk after mine hit 07.11.1940
T7
Torpedoboot 1939 - 1947 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 20.08.1937
Launched: 18.06.1938
Commissioned: 20.12.1939
Fate: scrapped between 1947-1949
T8
Torpedoboot 1939 - 1945 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 28.08.1937
Launched: 10.08.1938
Commissioned: 08.10.1939
Fate: scuttled on 03.05.1945
T9
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1945 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Schichau Elbing, 24.11.1936
Launched: 03.11.1938
Commissioned: 04.07.1940
Fate: scuttled on 03.05.1945
T10
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1944 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Schichau Elbing, 24.11.1936
Launched: 06.08.1940
Commissioned: 06.08.1940
Fate: destroyed 18.12.1944
T11
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1951 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 01.07.1938
Launched: 01.03.1939
Commissioned: 07.05.1940
Fate: scrapped October 1951
T12
Torpedoboot 1940 - 1991 Torpedoboot 1935 Class
Laid down: Deschimag Bremen, 20.08.1938
Launched: 12.04.1939
Commissioned: 03.07.1940
Fate: sunk in deep water 1991