page_title: Type 24 torpedo boat
section_title: Ships
hierarchical_section_title: Type 24 torpedo boat / Ships
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. In Wilhelmshaven laufen am 15. März 4 neue Zerstörer der Wolf-Klasse vom Stappel! Die 4 neuen Zerstörer vor dem Stappellauf auf der staatl. Marinewerft in Wilhelmhaven.
context_page_description: The Type 24 torpedo boat was a group of six torpedo boats built for the Reichsmarine during the 1920s. As part of the renamed Kriegsmarine, the boats made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. One was sunk in an accidental collision shortly before the start of World War II in September 1939 and the others escorted ships and searched for contraband for several months of the war. They played a minor role in the Norwegian Campaign of April 1940 and resumed their escort duties. After being transferred to France late in the year, the Type 24s started laying their own minefields in the English Channel.
  The surviving boats were refitted in early 1941 and were then transferred to the Skaggerak for escort duties. By the beginning of 1942 there were only two survivors and they were transferred back to France to participate in the Channel Dash. Another boat was lost a few months later trying to escort a commerce raider through the Channel in May. The last surviving boat, Jaguar, spent the next several years laying minefields, escorting blockade runners and U-boats through the Bay of Biscay and convoys in Norwegian waters.
caption: Tiger, Luchs, Jaguar, and Leopard at their launching ceremony
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