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85,2 mOverall length
1098 tMaximum displacement
36,6 knMaximum speed
119-155Complement
Design and service
The story of Torpedoboot T16
T16 Torpedoboot T16 was part of the 3rd TFlottila after commissioned. Transferred to Rotterdam in January 1942 to participate in Operation Cerberus. On 19 March 1942, T16 escorted the CA Admiral Hipper to Norway. After returning to Germany the torpedo boat was used in the torpedo school in the Baltic Sea, where it was damaged by a mine hit on 21 February 1943. In October 1944 it was put into active service again and was badly damaged by American air attacks while escorting a convoy on 10 April 1945. Caused by the heavy damage, it was decommissioned on 13 April 1945.
Operational history
Service timeline
Operation "Cerberus": On board of Z29, the "Füher der Zerstöer" and the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Paul Jakobi, Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Ihn, Z25 and the torpedo boats T2, T4, T4, T11, T12, T13, T15, T16, T17 Seeadler, Kondor, Jaguar, Falke and iescort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the Channel from Brest ot Germany.
The destroyers Z24, Z26, Z30 and the torpedo boats T11, T15 and T16 escort the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper to Trondheim.
Z28 and the torpedo boats T7 and T16 escort the auxiliary ships Kärnten, Dithmarschen and the tender Tsingtau from Stavangar to Trondheim.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1098 t
- Length (Total)
- 85,2 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 82,0 m
- Beam
- 8,87 m
- Draft
- 3,14 m
- Crew
- 119-155
Armament
- 10,5 cm L/45 C/32
- 1
- 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
- 5-12
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 6
- Mines
- 30
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Wagner Geared Turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 34110 shp
- Speed
- 36,6 kn
- Range
- 1400 sm at 19 kn
Construction record
Torpedoboot T16
- Laid down
- Schichau Elbing, 1939
- Launched
- 23.11.1938
- Commissioned
- 24.07.1941
- Fate
- de
- Cost
- 9,3 Mio Reichsmark