German Torpedoboat V106

Originally designed as a Royal Netherlands small destroyer, four ships of this class were ordered from the Stettin Shipyards of AG Vulcan in 1914. When WWI started up foreign ordered ships in various powers shipyards were taken over as a means of increasing Naval Fleets by whatever means necessary. The Z-1 through Z-4 ships was renamed by Germany as V-105 through V-108, the V standing in for the Vulcan Shipyards.

At 340 tons displacement, 205 feet long and a speed of 27 knots these were handy little ships which carried 2 torpedo tubes firing the 17.7 inch or 450 MM torpedo. While her three sisters were carrying two 8.8 CM guns she had her guns reduced to two 52mm mounts to enable a third torpedo tube to be added. They were designed as dual fuel type ships with two boilers fired by coal and two fired by fuel oil, enabling them to be of maximum use The Yarrow water tube boilers turned two geared turbines that were turning two screws with a horsepower rating of 5500 HP. 

The history of these ships was interesting as a Dutch design, placed into Kriegsmarine service, and then two of them turned over to Brazil as a part of war reparations and then sold to Poland. The four ships served through WWI for Germany as coastal patrol and defense ships, V-106 being scrapped in 1920. V-107 hit a Russian mine and had her bow blown off in the harbor entrance to Libau on the 8th of May in 1915 just two months after being commissioned. V-105 was renamed the ORP Mazur, V-108 was renamed as the ORP Kaszub. These two were rearmed and used in various functions up to WWII. V-105 as the ORP Mazur had the distinction of being one of the first Polish ships sunk on September 1, 1939 when German bombers appeared over her berth in Oksywie dropping one bomb close to her and another amidships. The V-108 as the ORP Kaszub fell victim to a boiler explosion in Gdansk Harbor on July 20, 1925 with a loss of 3 crewmembers. 

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