SMS S139
SMS S139 refers to two torpedo boats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy):
- SMS S139 (1906), a S138-class torpedo boat launched on 12 November 1906, renamed T139 in 1917 and renamed again as Pfeil in 1927. Still in service in 1944, but fate after then unrecorded.[1]
- SMS S139 (1917), a 1916 Mobilisation Type torpedo boat launched on 24 November 1917. To France as Deligny in 1920 and scrapped in 1934.[2][3]
Citations
[edit]- ^ Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 47.
- ^ Gröner, Jung & Maass 1983, p. 57.
- ^ Dodson 2019, pp. 142–143.
References
[edit]- Dodson, Aidan (2019). "Beyond the Kaiser: The IGN's Destroyers and Torpedo Boats After 1918". In Jordan, John (ed.). Warship 2019. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. pp. 129–144. ISBN 978-1-4728-3595-6.
- Gröner, Erich; Jung, Dieter; Maass, Martin (1983). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815–1945: Band 2: Torpedoboote, Zerstörer, Schnellboote, Minensuchboote, Minenräumboote (in German). Koblenz: Bernard & Graef Verlag. ISBN 3-7637-4801-6.
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