SMS V2
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SMS V2[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] was a V1-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. The ship was built by AG Vulcan, completing in 1912. She served in the First World War with the German High Seas Fleet, taking part in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight in 1914 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916. She was retained by the post-war German Navy and was stricken in 1929 and scrapped.
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Name | V2 |
Ordered | 1911 |
Builder | AG Vulcan Stettin, Germany |
Launched | 14 October 1911 |
Commissioned | 28 March 1912 |
Fate | Stricken 18 November 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 697 t (686 long tons) |
Length | 71.1 m (233 ft 3 in) oa |
Beam | 7.6 m (24 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 3.11 m (10 ft 2 in) |
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Speed | 32 knots (59.3 km/h; 36.8 mph) |
Range | 1,190 nmi (2,200 km; 1,370 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 74 officers and sailors |
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