T196

Survived

Imperial German Navy, then Kriegsmarine (Germany)

Type	Torpedo boat
Class	S-138
War	Second World War
Main guns	2× 8.8 cm guns

Service

to 1918	G196	Germany
1918–1935	T196 Renamed	Germany
from 1935	T196 The navy renamed the Kriegsmarine	Germany

Imperial German torpedo boat of 1911 that fought at Heligoland Bight in 1914. Rebuilt in the 1920s, she served in both the invasion of Poland and the evacuation of East Prussia, where she took about 300 people off the sinking General von Steuben in February 1945. Given to the Soviet Union in 1945.

Lot-2275-27: German Warships, WWII. German boat, T-96, port view, 1933. Halftone image from Division of Naval Intelligence, Identification and Characteristics Section, June 1943. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/05/06). Actually the torpedo boat T196, formerly named SMS G196. Photo is post Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

2× 8.8 cm guns
4× 50 cm torpedo tubes

Builder	Germaniawerft, Kiel
Launched	25 May 1911
Displacement	660 t (650 long tons) design
Length	74.0 m (242 ft 9 in) o/a
Speed	32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Complement	84

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

25 May 1911

Sinking of General von Steuben

Survived

10 February 1945

Took about 300 people off her decks