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Saturday 8 October 2016

Austrian torpedo gunboat or torpedo ship SMS Satellit 1892-1920 (1921)


Laid down at Schichau, Elbing, Germany with yard number 482 in January 1892, launched on 21 September 1892, completed in June 1892, converted into a minelayer in 1914. ceded to France in 1920 and towed via Bizerte, Tunisia towards Toulon, France and there broken up in 1921. Building costs 969.575 crones.

Displacement 540 normal)-616 (full load) tons and as dimensions 67,2 (between perpendiculars)-68,9 (over all) x 8,10 x 2,40 metres. Original machinery consisted of vertical triple expansion steam engines and 4 coal fuelled Schulz-Thornycroft boilers supplying 4.000 hp allowing a speed of 23 knots and with a speed of 10 knots and a coal bunker capacity of 143 tons a range of 4.000 nautical miles. In 1913 were the boilers replaced by new ones from Yarrow and with the 3 funnels was her horsepower 4.000 hp resulting in a speed of 21,9 knots. Her crew numbered 86 men. The armament consisted of 1x1-6,6cm/37 Skoda L/42 quick firing guns, 6/8x1-4,7cm/40 Skoda quick firing L/44 H guns and 2-45cm torpedo tubes.