The Type 35 and Type 37 Torpedo boat

Torpedo boat

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and...

s were small destroyer

Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

s (German: Flottentorpedoboot "Fleet Torpedo Boat") built for the German Kriegsmarine

Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...

 between 1939 and 1942. They were designed to exploit a clause in the Washington Naval Treaty

Washington Naval Treaty

The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was an attempt to cap and limit, and "prevent 'further' costly escalation" of the naval arms race that had begun after World War I between various International powers, each of which had significant naval fleets. The treaty was...

, which stipulated that ships under 600 tons standard displacement did not count towards limited tonnages. They did however grow in size to 845 tons standard tonnage. Their primary intention was to produce a seaworthy torpedo craft larger and more heavily armed than a Schnellboot

E-boat

E-boats was the designation for Motor Torpedo Boats of the German Navy during World War II. It is commonly held that the E stood for Enemy....

. These ships fought in the North Sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

, English Channel

English Channel

The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

 and Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

. They were not considered very successful, their weak gun armament was disliked and the machinery was unreliable and difficult to repair. They also had relatively poor seakeeping and a weak bridge structure.

General characteristics

	Type 35	Type 37
Displacement:	845 tons standard 1,090 tons full load	874 tons standard 1,121 tons full load
Length	84.3 m	85.2 m
Beam	8.62 m	8.87 m
Draught	2.83 m	2.8 m
Machinery	2 shaft geared turbines 4 Wagner type boilers	2 shaft geared turbines 4 Wagner type boilers
Speed	35 knots (69 km/h)
Range	1200 nmi (2,222.4 km) at 19 knots (37 km/h)	1600 nmi (2,963.2 km) at 19 knots (37 km/h)
Armament	One 105 mm gun One 37 mm gun two 20 mm guns six 21.7 inches (551 mm) torpedo tubes (2x3) 30 mines	One 105 mm gun One 37 mm gun two 20 mm guns six 21.7 inches (551 mm) torpedo tubes (2x3) 30 mines
Crew	119	119

Type 35

Ship	Builder	Commissioned	Fate
T1	Schichau Schichau Schichau Elbing or Schichau may refer to:The German surname* Ferdinand Schichau , the German businessman and engineer who founded the Schichau-Werke... , Elbing	1 December 1939	Sunk 9 April 1945, by bombing in Kiel Kiel Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...  Harbour
T2	Schichau, Elbing	2 December 1939	Sunk 29 July 1944 by bombing in Bremen Bremen The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
T3	Schichau, Elbing	3 February 1940	Sunk in Le Havre Le Havre Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...  by bombing 18 September 1940 but raised and repaired, Sunk by mines in Danzig Bay 14 March 1945
T4	Schichau, Elbing	27 May 1940	Transferred to Denmark and scrapped post war
T5	Deschimag, Bremen	23 January 1940	Sunk by mines in Danzig Bay 14 March 1945
T6	Deschimag, Bremen	30 April 1940	Sunk 7 November 1940
T7	Deschimag, Bremen	20 December 1939	Sunk 29 July 1944
T8	Deschimag	8 October 1939	Scuttled 3 May 1945
T9	Schichau, Elbing	4 July 1940	Scuttled 3 May 1945
T10	Schichau, Elbing	5 August 1940	Sunk in Gotenhaven by bombing 18 December 1944
T11	Deschimag	24 May 1940	War reparation to France. Served as Bir Hakeim in French Navy French Navy The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...
T12	Deschimag	3 July 1940	Transferred to USSR, served in the Soviet Navy Soviet Navy The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...  as destroyer Podvizhny (Подвижный) and since 1954 trial ship Kit, sunk as target ship in 1959 at Lake Ladoga Lake Ladoga Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 14th largest lake by area in the world.-Geography:...

Type 37

All these ships were built by Schichau in Elbing

Ship	Commissioned	Fate
T13	31 May 1941	Sunk 10 April 1945
T14	14 June 1941	Transferred to France as the Dompaire, BU 1949
T15	26 June 1941	Sunk 13 December 1945, by RAF Bombers
T16	24 July 1941	Damaged beyond repair by RAF Bombers 13 April 1945
T17	18 August 1941	Transferred to USSR post war, served as destroyer Poryvisty (Порывистый), BU 1960
T18	22 November 1941	Sunk 13 September 1944, by Soviet aircraft in the Baltic
T19	18 December 1942	Transferred to Denmark post war , Broken Up
T20	5 June 1942	Transferred to France as the Baccarat, BU 1951
T21	11 July 1942	Transferred to USA post war, Scuttled 10 June 1946