SMS G136
T136
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History | |
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German Empire | |
Name | SMS G135 |
Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Launched | 25 August 1906 |
Commissioned | 16 March 1907 |
Renamed | SMS T136: 27 September 1916 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | S90-class torpedo boat |
Displacement | 412 t (405 long tons) |
Length | 65.7 m (215 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 7.0 m (23 ft 0 in) |
Draft | 2.87 m (9 ft 5 in) |
Installed power | 7,000 PS (6,900 ihp; 5,100 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 1,060 nmi (1,960 km; 1,220 mi) at 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 69 |
Armament |
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SMS G136
The ship took part in the
Design and construction
The S90-class consisted of 48 torpedo-boats, built between 1898 and 1907 by Schichau and
G135 was 65.7 m (215 ft 7 in) long
G136 was fitted with a gun armament of a single 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SL L/35 gun and two 5.2 cm SK L/55 guns.[1] These were later replaced by two 8.8 cm SK L/45 naval guns.[5] The ship was fitted with three 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes.[5] The ship had a crew of two officers and 67 other ranks,[8] although this increased to 84 when used as a flotilla leader.[1]
G136 was
Service
On commissioning, G136 joined the 5th torpedo-boat half-flotilla, part of the 1st School Flotilla.[10] In 1908, the 5th half-flotilla, including G136, had transferred to the active 1st Manoeuvre Flotilla.[11] In 1909, G136 had transferred to the 9th half-flotilla, which remained part of the Manoeuvre Flotilla.[12] In 1911, G136 was part of the 5th half-flotilla of the 3rd Torpedo boat Flotilla,[13] remaining part of that unit through 1912,[14] and into 1913, although the flotilla was now a reserve formation.[15]
First World War
While the German Navy mobilised on 1 August 1914, owing to the
On 22 January 1915, G136 was one of eight torpedo boats[d] that accompanied the cruisers Prinz Adalbert and Augsburg in a sweep north of Gotland, with Libau being shelled on the return journey.[23][24] In April 1915, G136 was transferred to the 7th half-flotilla, with duties of patrolling the Øresund.[23][25] On 9 September 1915, G136 sighted a submarine, possibly the British E18, south of Falsterbo, which dived away before G136 could take effective countermeasures, with the cruiser Amazone having a similar encounter shortly afterwards.[26][e]
The ship was later employed as a flagship for minesweeper flotillas,[28] and in May 1916 was attached to the 2nd Minesweeping division of the 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla, operating in the Baltic.[29] G136 was renamed T136 on 27 September 1916,[28] in order to free her number for new construction, in this case the 1916 Mobilisation type torpedo boat S136.[30][31] At the end of 1917, T136 was part of the 3rd half flotilla of the 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla.[32] In early 1918, owing to the need to escort German U-boats through minefields in the German Bight, the coastal patrol and minesweeping forces of the German forces were reorganised to form large escort flotillas.[33] T136 joined one of these escort flotillas,[28] being leader of the 3rd escort half-flotilla of the 1st Escort Flotilla in April 1918.[34]
After the end of the war, T136 was initially retained by the Weimar Republic's navy, the Reichsmarine, but was struck from the Naval lists on 21 July 1921. She was sold for scrap on 20 August that year and broken up at Wilhelmshaven.[28]
Notes
- Seiner Majestät Schiff" (English: His Majesty's Ship)
- ^ The "G" in G136 denoted the shipbuilder who constructed her.[1]
- ^ G132, G133, G134, G135 and G136.[18]
- ^ G132, G133, G134, G135, G136, S129, T97 and S131.[23]
- ^ The British submarines E18 and E19 both successfully passed through the Øresund to the Baltic at the time, with E18's passage being described as "particularly harrowing".[27]
References
- ^ a b c d e Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 164
- ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, pp. 262, 265
- ^ a b Gardiner & Gray 1985, pp. 164–165
- ^ Fock 1981, pp. 141–142
- ^ a b c Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 43
- ^ Fock 1981, p. 141
- ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 265
- ^ a b Fock 1981, p. 142
- ^ Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, pp. 43, 45
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1907. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1907. p. 27. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1908. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1908. p. 27. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1909. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1909. p. 55. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1911. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1911. p. 56. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1912. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1912. p. 58. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Rangelist der Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine für Das Jahr 1913. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn. 1913. p. 60. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Heinrich Hein Universität Düsseldorf.
- ^ Fock 1989, p. 349
- ^ Fock 1989, p. 347
- ^ a b Firle 1921, p. 129
- ^ a b c Fock 1989, p. 350
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 25 1922, p. 84
- ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 25 1922, pp. 93–94
- ^ Firle 1921, pp. 241–246
- ^ a b c Fock 1989, p. 351
- ^ Firle 1921, p. 277
- ^ Rollmann 1929, pp. 41, 46
- ^ Rollmann 1929, pp. 312–313
- ^ Halpern 1994, p. 201
- ^ a b c d Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 45
- ^ Stoelzel 1930, p. 39
- ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 263
- ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 171
- ^ Gladisch 1965, pp. 33–34
- ^ Gladisch 1965, p. 179
- ^ Gladisch 1965, pp. 175–178
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- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-4801-6.
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