German spar torpedo steam ship SMS Ulan 1875-1919 (1926)

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Laid down by Möller&Holberg, Stettin-Grabow, Germany as No. IV with yard number 56 in 1875, launched as Ulan on 3 April 1876, commissioned on 8 October 1876, stricken on 26 May 1909, became a barge, sold to be broken up on 13 August 1919 and broken up at Hamburg, Germany in 1926.

German torpedo aviso SMS Zieten 1875-1921

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Built ot be used as tender for torpedo boats and as test platform for self-propelled torpedoes later also used as fishery protection vessel. Laid down by Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, London, England in 1875, launched on 9 March 1876, completed on 15 July 1876, commissioned on 1 August 1876, deommisssioned on 5 July 1919, stricken on 5 July 1919 and sold to be broken up at Wilhemshaven, Germany on 18 April 1921. 

Austrian torpedo vessel design dated October 1917

Designed by the Marinetechnische Komitee (MTK). Displacement 2,000 (construction)-2,350 (maximum) tons and as dimensions 124 x 10 x 3.30-2.60 metres. Armament consisted of 4x1-15cm/5.9” guns, 4x1-7cm/2.76” L/50 anti balloon guns, 2-8mm machine guns and 3x2-53.34cm/21” torpedo tubes. Propulsion consisted of 6 water tube boilers and 2 turbines delivering 43,000 hp allowing a speed of 34 (full load displacement)-37 knots and a range of 3,000 nautical miles/16 knots.

General design demands for a large torpedo battleship as stated by the Italian naval engineer Cuniberti according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1913-1914 no. 4

An item referred to the Rivista Marittima dated 31 May which published a note of the well known Italian naval engineer Cuniberti (1) describing the general specifications for a torpedo ship. With a displacement of 11.000 ton and a maximum speed of 25 miles was the armament to consist of 18-53cm/20.9” torpedo launchers (6 fore, 6 middle and 6 aft) and 16-15,2cm/6” guns (8 in an armoured turret fore and 8 aft). Both turret were to be protected by an armour with a maximum thickness of 40cm/15.7” and which armour was to be thickest at the base of the turrets. The surface part was to be as smallest as possible giving her the appearance of a submarine. The funnels, air ducts and so on were to pass through the turrets.

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1. Vittorio Cuniberti (6 June 1854, Piëmont, Italy-20 December 1913, Rome, Italy), a famous naval engineer who is well-known for his dreadnought concept.