The Torpedo boats of the "Torpedoboot 1937" class  were a slightly improved Torpedoboot 1935 ships.

Although the pressure of its engines was reduced, the ships still were not very reliable at all. Like their predecessors, the unbalanced armament made those ships not very useful during wartime, therefore many of them were used for U-boat training.

Since the end of 1944, several ships were attached to the cruisers and Panzerschiffe operating in the Baltic Sea and were involved in shore bombardments.