| SMS V45 | |
|---|---|
| Career (German Empire) |  |
| Ordered: | 1914 Peacetime order |
| Builder: | AG Vulcan Stettin, Germany |
| Launched: | 29 March 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1915 |
| Fate: |
• Interned at Scapa Flow 22 November 1918 • Scuttled at Scapa Flow 21 January 1919 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,051 tonnes |
| Length: | 79.5 meters |
| Beam: | 8.33 m |
| Draft: | 3.74 m (fwd); 3.45 meters (aft) |
| Speed: | 34.5 knots (63.9 km/h) |
| Range: |
1,100 nautical miles at 20 knots (2,040 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 83 officers and sailors |
| Armament: |
• 3 × 3.4 in (86 mm) guns • 6 × 500 mm torpedo tubes • 24 mines |
SMS V45 was a Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class torpedo boat of the Deutschen Kaiserliche Marine during World War I, and the 21st ship of her class.
Construction[]
Built by AG Vulcan Stettin shipyard, Germany, she was launched in December 1914. The "V" in V45 denotes at which shipyard she was built.
Service[]
V45 was assigned to the Sixth Torpedo Boat Flotilla, Twelfth Half-Flotilla, of the High Seas Fleet of the Kaiserliche Marine. When she participated in the Battle of Jutland she was assigned to escort the battlecruiser SMS Lützow. In this action, Lützow was severely damaged such that she was unable to return to German waters. She assisted SMS G37, G38 and G40 in the evacuation of survivors.
After the end of hostilities, V45 was interned at Scapa Flow and scuttled. She was salvaged for scrap by Ernest Cox in 1924.
References[]
- Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War, Chapter 10c, published by Admiral Reinhard Scheer in 1920
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