SMS Viper (1896)
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| Name | SMS Viper |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, England |
| Laid down | 1895 |
| Launched | January 1896 |
| Completed | October 1896 |
| Renamed | Torpedoboot 17, 1910 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 107 long tons (109 t) |
| Length | 44.8 m (147 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion | Reciprocating engines, 1,800 hp (1,342 kW) |
| Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
| Complement | 2 officers, 20 men |
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SMS ViperFirst World War as a patrol boat and minesweeper. She was scrapped in 1920.
Design
In 1895, the Austro-Hungarian Navy purchased one prototype torpedo boat each from the British shipbuilder Yarrow and the German shipbuilder Schichau-Werke, two specialist builders of torpedo vessels.[1]
Yarrow's design was 44.96 m (147 ft 6 in)
The ships was armed by two 47-millimetre (1.9 in) L/33 Skoda guns and three 450 mm (17.7 in)
Construction and service
The Yarrow torpedo boat, named Viper, was
sea trials,[5] and was completed in October 1896.[3] While both torpedo boats had similar stability and seaworthiness, Natter suffered from vibrations at high speed, and the Yarrow design was chosen for further orders, with four ships of the slightly larger Cobra-class torpedo boat ordered from Yarrow.[2]
In 1910, Austria renamed most of its torpedo boats, with Viper becoming Tb 17.War reparation as part of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1919. She was scrapped in 1920.[1]
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 332
- ^ a b c d Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 280
- ^ a b c d e f Greger 1976, p. 50
- ^ Friedman 2009, pp. 64–65
- ^ The Marine Engineer April 1899, p. 26
- ^ Greger 1976, p. 15
- ^ a b Fock 1989, p. 407
References
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- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Fock, Harald (1989). Z-Vor!: Internationale Entwicklung und Kriegseinsätze von Zerstörern und Torpedobooten: 1914 bis 1939 (in German). Herford, Germany: Koelers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. ISBN 3-7822-0207-4.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Greger, René (1976). Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0623-7.
- "The Austrian Torpedo-Boats". The Marine Engineer. Vol. XXI. April 1899. p. 26.