SMS S 148
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 SMS S 143 , a sister boat of S 148 |
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| Construction data | ||
| Ship type | Big torpedo boat | |
| Ship class | S 138 class | |
| Builder: |
Ferdinand Schichau in Elbing Building no .: 787 |
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| Keel laying : | 1907 | |
| Launch : | September 11, 1907 | |
| Completion: | March 18, 1908 | |
| Building-costs: | 1.46 million | |
| Sister boats: | S 138 - S 149 | |
| similar: | V 150 - V 160 | |
| Ship dimensions | ||
| Displacement : | Construction: 533 t Maximum: 684 t |
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| Length: |
KWL : 70.2 m over everything: 70.7 m |
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| Width: | KWL: 7.8 m | |
| Draft : | 2.75-2.95 m | |
| Side height : | 4.15 m | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Boiler system : | 4 coal-fired Marine Schulz steam boilers |
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| Machinery: | 2 standing three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines |
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| Number of propellers: | 2 three-winged ( 2.35 m) | |
| Shaft speed: | 320 rpm | |
| Drive power: | 11,000 PSi | |
| Speed: | 30.0 kts reached: 30.3 kts |
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| Driving range: | 1830 nm at 17.0 kn, 390 nm at 24.0 kn |
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| Fuel supply: | 194 tons of coal | |
| Crew: | 3 officers and 77 men | |
| Armament | ||
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| 1917–1920: |
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| from 1920: |
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| Whereabouts | ||
| June 1935 in Wilhelmshaven scrapped | ||
SMS S 148 was a large torpedo boat of the type 1906 of the series S 138 to S 149 of the Imperial Navy , which was renamed T 148 (T for torpedo boat) in 1917 and transferred to the Reichsmarine in 1919 . With the similar series V 150 to V 160 supplied by AG Vulcan Stettin , the boats were the last large torpedo boats of the Imperial Navy with piston steam engines.
S 148 and ten of its sister boats survived the First World War and were taken over by the Reichsmarine . In active fleet service, they were replaced by the newbuildings of the birds of prey and predator classes in the 1920s.
Imperial Navy
The boat was ordered in the budget year 1906 with 11 sister boats from the Schichau shipyard in Elbing and was launched on November 11, 1907 under construction number 787 . It represented a significant improvement over the previous series from S 126 to S 131 (371 t, 64.7 m, 28 kn) in terms of combat power, seaworthiness and speed. In the pre-war period, the boat belonged to various active and school flotillas. During a maneuver by the deep-sea fleet off Heligoland , there was an explosion in the engine room on May 14, 1913, which resulted in two deaths. Due to the selfless behavior of the marine engineer aspirant Hans Lüdemann, who suffered severe scalds and died as a result of the injuries suffered, S 148 was saved from sinking. The Navy named the destroyer Z 18 Hans Lüdemann after him.
First World War
At the beginning of the war, the boat belonged to the 4th Torpedo Boat Flotilla of the II Torpedo Boat Flotilla in the North Sea. After this flotilla was re-equipped with the confiscated ex-Argentine boats G 101 - G 104 as well as torpedo boat destroyers B 97 and B 98 and B 110 - B 112 made for the Russian Navy , the older boats were handed over to the Baltic Sea. From 1915 S 148 belonged to the newly established 19th torpedo boat semi-flotilla of the Xth torpedo boat flotilla.
In the Baltic Sea, S 148 was used very actively together with its sister boats for escort and mine tasks. In addition, there were patrol services to monitor the sound of the British and the increasingly active Russian submarines. From June 3rd to 5th, 1915, the boat took part in a major mining operation in Irbenstrasse as a safety device for the small cruisers SMS Augsburg and SMS Lübeck under the command of Kapitänleutnant Saupe . After the mine had been laid, this association split up and S 148 was supposed to coal from the steamer Dora Hugo Stinnes off the west coast of Gotland , together with S 139 and the small cruiser SMS Thetis . During the coal takeover, the unit was sighted by the British submarine HMS E9 and attacked with three torpedoes. Two of them met the Dora Hugo Stinnes , who sank an hour and a half later. The third hit the forecastle of S 148 . The three foremost departments were full, and there were one dead and two seriously injured. The screws could be brought back into the water by trimming, and the boat was towed by S 139 over the stern post to Libau . After the subsequent repair, the boat belonged to the outpost flotilla from 1916 and from March 1918 to the 2nd half flotilla of the 1st escort flotilla in the North Sea.
On September 24, 1917, due to the reassignment of the numbers through new orders, the boat was redrawn as T 148 in order to avoid confusion with the new boat G 148 that had been ordered. At the same time, all of the other boats still in the series were redrawn with the letter T and the shipyard letter S for Schichau was replaced by T = torpedo boat .
Imperial Navy
After the end of the war, the boat belonged to the units granted to the Reichsmarine by the Versailles Treaty and was rebuilt in 1920: the bridge was enlarged, the funnels were given attachments, and the old 8.8 cm Tk L / 35 guns were replaced with the 5.2 cm Tk replaced by two modern 8.8 cm Tk L / 45 C / 1913. The boat was completely overhauled.
T 148 was placed on March 31, 1921 with the 2nd torpedo boat flotilla in the North Sea as a material reserve and taken over into the active inventory in 1923. From January 26, 1924, the future Admiral Kurt Fricke was in command of the boat. With the inflow of the new torpedo boats of the predator class was T 148 removed from the list of warships on 8 October 1928 but not until 1935 Wilhelmshaven scrapped.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolph Firle: The War at Sea 1914–1918. The war in the Baltic Sea. Volume 2: The war year 1915. ES Mittler, Berlin, 1929, p. 148f.
literature
- Harald Fock: Black journeymen. Volume 2: Destroyers before 1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0206-6 .
- Harald Fock: Z-before! Volume 1: International development and war missions of destroyers and torpedo boats 1914 to 1939. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0762-9 .
- Erich Gröner: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 2. Torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1998, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
- Robert Gardiner: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979, ISBN 0-8517-7133-5 .
