Type 24 torpedo boat

Class overview
Type 1924 (Raubtier-class) torpedo boats
Operators:	Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
In commission:	1926–44
Completed:	6
Lost:	6
General characteristics ^[1]
Type:	Torpedo boat
Displacement:	932 tons (standard) 1,298 tons (full load)
Length:	92.6 m
Beam:	8.65 m
Draught:	3.52 m
Propulsion:	2 shaft geared steam turbines (from Brown, Boveri & Cie, Vulcan and Schichau), 3 boilers, 25,500 shp
Speed:	35.2 knots (65.2 km/h; 40.5 mph)
Range:	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement:	120 - 129
Armament:	3 × 105 mm L/45 (3x1) 2 × 20 mm Flak L/65 (1×1) (4 or 7 from 1940) 6 × 500 (533 from 1931) mm torpedo tubes (2×3) 30 mines

The German Type 24 torpedo boat was a class of torpedo boat built for the Reichsmarine following World War I. They were a development of the Type 23 torpedo boat.

Six vessels were built in total, and with modifications all six served with the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

The ships were named for Carnivorans and were referred to as the Raubtier class.

General characteristics

The six ships of Raubtier ("predator") class were laid down in 1926-27 and were commissioned in 1928-29. All six vessels were built at Reichsmarinewerft ("Navy Yard"), Wilhelmshaven. As with the 1923 Type, they used electrical welding for hull construction to reduce displacement and had geared turbines. It had been intended the 1924 Type would mount 12.7 cm guns but, instead, received updated 10.5 cm weapons. Speed and range were improved, but otherwise, they displayed the same good and bad points as the Raubvogels and experienced similar operational conditions and upgrades.

The Type 24's entered service in 1927 and 1928 and all but one had been lost before mid 1942.

Ships

Name	Launched	Completed	Fate
Wolf	1927	1928	Mined 8 January 1941 near Dunkirk
Iltis (Polecat)	1927	1928	Sunk by British MTBs during the Action of 13 May 1942 while escorting the auxiliary cruiser Stier
Jaguar	1928	1929	Bombed 14 June 1944
Leopard	1928	1929	Wrecked in collision with the minelayer Preussen on 30 April 1940^[2]
Luchs (Lynx)	1928	1929	Torpedoed by HMS Thames 26 July 1940
Tiger	1928	1929	Wrecked in collision with destroyer Z3 Max Schultz 25 September 1939

Notes

↑ Conway p237
↑ Rohwer and Hummelchen p22

References

Gardiner, Robert (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
Hümmelchen, Jürgen Rohwer ; with special assistance from Gerhard; Weis, Thomas (2005). Chronology of the war at sea : 1939-1945 : the naval history of World War II (3. rev. ed.). Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

German naval ship classes of World War II

Aircraft carriers	Graf Zeppelin I^X Jade ^X Seydlitz ^X II ^X

Capital Ships	Scharnhorst Bismarck H^X O^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Deutschland

Heavy cruisers	Deutschland Admiral Hipper D^X P^X

Light cruisers	Gazelle Emden^S Königsberg Leipzig M^X Spähkreuzer^X

Destroyers	Type 1934 Type 1934A Type 1936 Type 1936A Type 1936A / 1936A (Mob) / Narvik Type 1936B

Torpedo boats	Type 23 Type 24 Type 35 Type 37 Elbing Torpedoboot Ausland

U-boats (submarines)	Type I Type II Type VII Type IX Type X Type XIV Type XVII Type XXI Type XXIII Uncompleted projects

Other	E-boats R boats M-class minesweepers F-class escort ship Auxiliary cruisers Vorpostenboot Marinefährprahm Siebel ferry Sperrbrecher

S Single ship of class X Cancelled V Conversions

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