Mr. Ms. G 16
 The G 16 torpedo boat in the 1930s
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
The G 16 was the last G-Class torpedo boat of the Royal Dutch Navy and was built in 1914, but was never used in the war. In 1940 it was confiscated by the Navy and used as a torpedo catch boat under the designation TFA 9 . Returned after the war, it was still used as a target ship in 1948 .
Construction and technical data
The last boat built since 1905 G-Class took place at the shipyard Wilton Fijenoord in Schiedam under the hull number 255 keel laying of the boat on July 22, 1913. The G-Class was a development of the Hydra class and the Ophir class and differed from these in their good seaworthiness, which was achieved through the high forecastle. The launch took place on March 10, 1914, the commissioning as G 16 took place on July 29, 1914.
The boat was 49.9 m long, 5.2 m wide and had a 1.40 m draft . The water displacement was 180 t standard or 230 t maximum. The machine system consisted of a three-cylinder, triple expansion machine with 2600 PSi , which enabled a speed of up to 25 knots via one screw . At a cruising speed of 8 knots, the boat had a range of 1230 nautical miles . The crew consisted of 27 men. The boat was armed with two 75 mm guns and three 45 cm torpedo tubes in a stand-alone configuration.
history
Dutch Navy
After commissioning at the beginning of the First World War , the navy of the neutral country was essentially limited to monitoring its territorial waters. In the 1930s, the G 16 was modernized , with the existing armament being supplemented by two 12.7 mm machine guns . At the end of the 30s, however, the boat was out of date and the Navy only used it for training and patrol duties in European waters.
When the German invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg began on May 10, 1940, the boat was in the Rijkswerf in the naval port of Den Helder for repairs . There the crew sank their boat on May 14th so as not to let it fall into the hands of the Wehrmacht.
Navy
The Navy lifted the boat in May and June and brought it to the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij shipyard in Amsterdam for repairs . On December 5, 1941 it was put into service as the TFA 9 torpedo catch boat ("Torpedo catch boat abroad"), armed with two 20 mm flak . From September 19, 1942 until the end of the war, it was deployed with the 22nd submarine flotilla in Gotenhafen and had to recover the exercise torpedoes fired during the training of submarine crews. At the end of the war, the crew sank the boat in Kiel on May 3, 1945 .
Whereabouts
After the Second World War, the boat was lifted and returned to the Netherlands. The Dutch Navy still used it as a target ship. As such, it was sunk off the Dutch coast in 1948.
literature
- LL von Münching: Schepen van de kon. Marine in de 2e Wereldoorlog , De Alk, Alkmaar 1978, ISBN 90-6013-903-8 .
- Erich Gröner : Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 5 Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Accommodation Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
- Siegfried Breyer: Rarities at sea in the last 70 years (Marine-Arsenal special volume 14), Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1997, ISBN 3-7909-0597-6 .
Web links
- G13 torpedo boats (1914) , with photo of the G 16 boat at navypedia.org, accessed on November 12, 2018
- Nederlands torpedoboten - Inleiding at go2war2.nl, accessed on November 16, 2018
- Photos of the boat, including from the salvage in 1940 at maritiemdigitaal.nl, accessed on November 16, 2018