SMS G11
1912 German V1-class torpedo boat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SMS G11[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] was a V1-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel between 1911 and 1912, completing on 8 August 1912.
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Name | SMS G11 |
Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Launched | 23 April 1912 |
Completed | 8 August 1912 |
Fate | Bombed 3 April 1945 |
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Class and type | V1-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 573 t (564 long tons) design |
Length | 71.5 m (234 ft 7 in) o/a |
Beam | 7.6 m (24 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 3.0 m (9 ft 10 in) |
Installed power | 16,000 PS (16,000 shp; 12,000 kW) |
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Speed | 32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
Complement | 74 |
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G11 served through the First World War, taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Following the end of the war, the ship continued to serve with the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine and Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. In 1936, G11 became a training vessel, and in 1939 was renamed T111. She was wrecked during an air raid on Kiel on 3 April 1945 and later scuttled.