.jpg) T196 after 1923
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| History | |
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 German Empire | |
| Name | SMS G196 |
| Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Launched | 25 May 1911 |
| Completed | 2 October 1911 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S138-class torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 660 t (650 long tons) design |
| Length | 74.0 m (242 ft 9 in) o/a |
| Beam | 7.06 m (23 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | 18,200 PS (18,000 shp; 13,400 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
| Complement | 84 |
| Armament |
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SMS G196[a][b] was a S-138-class large torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. She was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel between 1910 and 1911, and was launched on 25 May 1911, entering service later that year. She served throughout the First World War, taking part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914. She was renamed T196 in February 1918.
Post war, T196 served in the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine, being rebuilt and modernised in 1923. She was still in service on the outbreak of the Second World War, taking part in the German Invasion of Poland at the start of the war and the evacuation of East Prussia towards the end of the war in Europe.
She survived the war, and was transferred to the Soviet Navy in 1945, and was renamed Pronzitelny. The ship was stricken in 1949.
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- ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 164