Kaiman-class torpedo boat
The Kaiman class were high-seas torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1904 and 1910. Yarrow Shipbuilders built the lead ship, Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino of Trieste built 13 boats. Ganz-Danubius constructed the remaining 10 boats at their shipyards at Fiume. The class was considered to be a successful design, and all boats saw extensive active service during World War I.
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The Kaiman class were high-seas torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1904 and 1910. Yarrow Shipbuilders built the lead ship, Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino of Trieste built 13 boats, and Ganz-Danubius constructed the remaining 10 boats at their shipyards at Fiume. The class was considered to be a successful design, and all boats saw extensive active service during World War I. All the boats were transferred to the Allies and scrapped at the end of the war, except for four allocated to the navy of the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. These were discarded and broken up between 1928 and 1930. The boats were initially given names, but were redesignated with numbers on 1 January 1914, with three suffixes; E for the Yarrow boat built in England, T for the boats built in Trieste, and F for theboats built in Fiumes.
The 450 mm torpedoes were the L5 type, which carried a 95 kg warhead and had a range of 3,000 m at a speed of 32 knots. Later variants increased the warhead to 110 kg and the range to 6,000 at 27 knots. In 1915, one 8 mm machine gun was added. They were armed with four Škoda 47 mm L33 guns and three 450 mm torpedo tubes. They carried 47 tonnes of coal, which gave them a radius of action of 500 nautical miles at 26 knots, or 1,030 nmi at 16 knots.
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