page_title: Torpedo-boats of the German Navy (1871-1919)
section_title: German ocean-going torpedo boats
hierarchical_section_title: Torpedo-boats of the German Navy (1871-1919) / German ocean-going torpedo boats
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: SMS S 66.
context_page_description: Torpedo boats had been operated by the Imperial German Navy from the very beginning. The "Imperial Navy" existed between 1871 and 1919. In 1870 there had been 14 tugboats and harbour vessels and 7 rowing boats, which had been armed with spar torpedoes to protect the Elbe and Weser during the Franco-Prussian War.
context_section_description: The ocean-going torpedo boats (Hochseetorpedoboote) or large torpedo boats (Große Torpedoboote) had been in many ways the equivalent of the contemporary destroyers in other navies. But the gun armament had been lighter  than British destroyers. In 1916 most of the boats of the 1913/1913 Mob-type had been refitted with three much more powerful 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK L/45 guns, with 70 shells per gun. 
  1898 Type Large Torpedoboat (S90-class): 48 boats, built over 8 years
  1906 Type Large Torpedoboat (S138-class): 60 boats (4 additional boats sold to the Turkish Navy) built over 5 years
  1911 Type Large Torpedoboat (V1-class): 24 boats (2 additional boats sold to the Greek Navy) built to a smaller design
  1913 / 1913 Mob Type Large Torpedoboat (V25-class): 71 boats, reverted to larger design; numbers increased due to First World War
  1916 Mob Type Large Torpedoboat (V125-class): 36 boats, built for war service
  1917 Mob Type Large Torpedoboat (G148-class): 22 boats, 13 scrapped before completion, 9 scrapped on slip
caption: SM S 66 (V 25-class)
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