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Nazi Germany | |
Name | T15 |
Ordered | 18 September 1937 |
Builder | Schichau, Elbing, East Prussia |
Yard number | 1403 |
Laid down | 3 January 1939 |
Launched | 16 September 1939 |
Completed | 26 June 1941 |
Fate | Sunk by aircraft, 13 December 1943 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Type 37 torpedo boat |
Displacement | |
Length | 85.2 m (279 ft 6 in) o/a |
Beam | 8.87 m (29 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
Complement | 119 |
Armament |
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The German torpedo boat T15 was one of nine Type 37 torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in mid-1941, the ship was transferred to Occupied France in December. She helped to escort a pair of battleships and a heavy cruiser through the English Channel back to Germany in February 1942 in the Channel Dash and then was ordered to Norway for escort work. T15 returned to Germany in August where she was assigned to the Torpedo School and U-boat Flotillas as a training ship. The ship was sunk by American bombers in December 1943.