SMS S 35 (1914)

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P. 35
Side view of the slightly larger sister boat S 56
Side view of the slightly larger sister boat S 56
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type Big torpedo boat
class S 31 class
Shipyard Schichau shipyard , Elbing
Build number 910
Keel laying 1914
Launch August 30, 1914
Commissioning 4th December 1914
Whereabouts Sunk May 31, 1916
Ship dimensions and crew
length
79.6 m ( Lüa )
79 m ( KWL )
width 8.33 m
Draft Max. 3.6 m
displacement Standard : 802 t
Maximum: 971 t
 
crew 87 men
Machine system
machine 3 marine boilers
2 Schichau turbines
Machine
performance
24,000 PS (17,652 kW)
Top
speed
33.5 kn (62 km / h)
propeller 2 three-winged ⌀ 2.5 m
Armament

+ 2 single 50 cm torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)

  • 24 mines possible

S 35 was a large torpedo boat designed by the Imperial Navy in 1913. The boat was part of a six-unit series that wasawardedto Schichau by the Reichsmarineamte (RMA)in the budget year 1913. S 35 was sunk on May 31, 1916 during the Battle of the Skagerrak .

history

The large torpedo boats of the 1913 official draft were a departure from the 1911 preliminary draft and an attempt to procure smaller and inexpensive boats. The new design reached the size of the British destroyer, but had a lighter armament. Primarily the Tirpitzsche torpedo boat doctrine still applied , that the torpedo was the primary weapon and the artillery was only used for defense.

The similar sister boat S 63 with reinforced armament

The boats of the official draft of 1913 were the first torpedo boats of the Imperial Navy to be fired exclusively with oil. As with the procurement of torpedo boats for the Imperial Navy since the beginning of the century, the construction contracts for the 1913 flotilla went to competing private shipyards: AG Vulcan in Stettin and the Schichau shipyard in Elbing, after which the boats with the first letters of the shipyards ( V or S ) as well as with consecutive serial numbers. The Stettiner Vulcan built the semi-flotilla from V 25 to V 30 and the Schichau shipyard the boats from S 31 to S 36 .

S 35 was left to the shipyard together with the sister boat S 36 in June 1914 and, after approval by the RMA, was intended for sale to Greece - with the proviso that Schichau immediately built two replacement boats (the boats that came into service later as S 49 and S 50 ) should lay on the keel. This did not happen because both boats were confiscated by the Reichsmarineamts on August 10, 1914 and came into service under the original designation.

The S 35 , which was only launched after the start of the war on August 30, 1914, was taken over by the Navy after accelerated completion on December 4, 1914 and came to the IX. Torpedo boat flotilla that was just being deployed. With the sister ships from S 31 onwards , it formed the 18th torpedo boat semi-flotilla under the then captainleutnant Werner Tillessen . The 17th torpedo boat half flotilla in the same formation consisted of the Vulcan boats V 25 to V 30 .

Calls

The boat was put into service on December 4, 1914 in Kiel and did the test drives in the Baltic Sea. Due to the lack of modern and fast warships, it had to go into combat missions there as part of its training activities.

The boat was used in the theaters of war in the North and Baltic Seas. Among other things, it was also present in February 1915 when V 25 went down . It was under the IX. Torpedo boat flotilla also used in the advance into the Riga Bay , in addition to which units from the deep-sea fleet were seconded, in August 1915. The boat rescued part of the crews on August 19 from the sister boat S 31, which had sunk in a mine . It then moved back to the North Sea under the new commandant Friedrich Ihn (1885–1916). In the winter of 1915/16 it took part in several reconnaissance expeditions into the Skagerrak and Kattegat in the flotilla association . Merchant ships from the neutral Scandinavian countries were checked for contraband . Successes in finding ships with goods belonging to the enemy powers ( Entente ), however, were very little.

loss

During the Battle of Jutland belonged to S 35 with the entire IX. Torpedo boat flotilla for the cover group of the reconnaissance forces under Vice Admiral Franz Hipper . The boat was assigned to the security screen of the II reconnaissance group under Friedrich Boedicker and thus ran at the head of the German fleet. In the initial phase, S 35 rescued twenty-nine seamen including the commander Erich Steinbrinck from the immobilized V 29 . In the confusing clashes during the battle, it took part in a torpedo attack on the British fleet at a critical moment for the German side (3rd turnaround to free the German ships from the British line), during which it received a heavy artillery hit. The boat broke apart after the hit and sank after 8.23 ​​p.m. at position 56 ° 56 '  N , 6 ° 4'  E with the entire crew of 87 men and the rescued 29 sailors from V 29 .

Honors

The German Navy honored the commander who had fallen on S 35 by naming the destroyer Z 14 Friedrich Ihn .

Individual evidence

  1. Köppen: The surface forces and their technology. P. 53
  2. Rollmann: Ostsee Vol. 2, p. 273
  3. a b Loss list: Halbstock the flag!

Web links

literature

  • Harald Fock: Black journeymen. Vol. 2 Destroyers until 1914. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1981, ISBN 3-7822-0206-6 .
  • Harald Fock: Z-before! Vol. 1 International development and war missions of destroyers and torpedo boats 1914 to 1939. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1998, ISBN 3-7822-0207-4 .
  • Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 2: Torpedo boats, destroyers, speed boats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 .
  • Otto Groos : The Wars at Sea 1914–1918. The war in the North Sea. Volume 5: From the beginning of January to June 1916. ES Mittler & Sohn 1925.
  • Paul Köppen: The Wars at Sea 1914–1918. The surface forces and their technology. ES Mittler & Sohn 1930.
  • Heinrich Rollmann : The war at sea 1914–1918. The war in the Baltic Sea. Volume 2: The war year 1915. ES Mittler & Sohn 1929.