By World War One the Imperial German Navy had 100's of torpedo boats. Of course destroyer size warships were also listed as torpedo boats. However, the Imperial German Navy was a fairly new creation. A unified Germany was only created at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Neither of the prime components, the Kingdoms of Prussia and Bavaria had any significant naval tradition, which in the case of Bavaria was quite understandable. When the new country started building a fleet, by and large the designs were conservative. However, in the field of torpedo boats, the German Navy showed a great deal of originality. The first torpedo boats were equipped with spare torpedoes and built at the start of the Germany Navy in 1871 to 1872. The first true torpedo boats built from the keel up were the seven members of the Schütze Class. The boats were constructed by AG Weser at Bremen and were built as First Class Torpedo Boats between 1882 and 1883. They were given names and numbers as listed: Schutze (V), Flink (VI), Scharf (VII), Tapfer (VIII), Kuhn (IX), Worwarts (X), and Sicher (XI).
The boats were 103 feet 5 inches (31.5m) in length, 12 feet 11 inches (3.93m) in beam, and 6 feet 9 inches (2.05m) in draught and a displacement of 55 tons. They were armed with two 350mm torpedo tubes in the bow, two spar torpedoes (Conway lists them as spar torpedoes but they actually seem to be reloads) and one 37mm Hotchkiss QF gun. The ships had a vertical two cylinder double expansion compound engine (except Scharf), which produced 590ihp and turned one shaft. Maximum speed was 19.5 knots (Conway), 17.9 knots (Groner). The crew was composed of one officer and 12 ratings. The Schütze was launched May 1, 1882 and commissioned September 14,, 1883 as a training boat for the torpedo boat flotilla. She had a fairly short life, as on October 19, 1891 was was removed from the navy list and converted as a guard ship at Wilhelmshavaen. In 1900 she was sold and broken up. The other units had about the same history, except Flink served as a supply boat after 1891 and Tapfer served as a target boat after 1891. Although the boats of the Schütze class had undistinguished careers, they were historic vessels. They were the first German vessels whose primary weapon was the self-propelled torpedo.
The file contains all the sounds and pcx files. Model is not my own creation because JoTheising aka JoCreation (From Subsim) allowed me to use it. Wyrmshadow provided the animation files and Ares de Borg did the sounds. I merely put the pieces together and cleaned up the model for CivIII and added some what if pieces. A big thanks to everyone that helped out! A Special Side note please choose which attack you want cannot have both due to the positioning of the weapons.
The boats were 103 feet 5 inches (31.5m) in length, 12 feet 11 inches (3.93m) in beam, and 6 feet 9 inches (2.05m) in draught and a displacement of 55 tons. They were armed with two 350mm torpedo tubes in the bow, two spar torpedoes (Conway lists them as spar torpedoes but they actually seem to be reloads) and one 37mm Hotchkiss QF gun. The ships had a vertical two cylinder double expansion compound engine (except Scharf), which produced 590ihp and turned one shaft. Maximum speed was 19.5 knots (Conway), 17.9 knots (Groner). The crew was composed of one officer and 12 ratings. The Schütze was launched May 1, 1882 and commissioned September 14,, 1883 as a training boat for the torpedo boat flotilla. She had a fairly short life, as on October 19, 1891 was was removed from the navy list and converted as a guard ship at Wilhelmshavaen. In 1900 she was sold and broken up. The other units had about the same history, except Flink served as a supply boat after 1891 and Tapfer served as a target boat after 1891. Although the boats of the Schütze class had undistinguished careers, they were historic vessels. They were the first German vessels whose primary weapon was the self-propelled torpedo.
The file contains all the sounds and pcx files. Model is not my own creation because JoTheising aka JoCreation (From Subsim) allowed me to use it. Wyrmshadow provided the animation files and Ares de Borg did the sounds. I merely put the pieces together and cleaned up the model for CivIII and added some what if pieces. A big thanks to everyone that helped out! A Special Side note please choose which attack you want cannot have both due to the positioning of the weapons.
