Battlefields & battle sites · Scottish Islands
SMS S51
SMS S51 in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
SMS S51 is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
SMS S51 was a V25-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. Ordered immediately after the outbreak of the First World War, S51 was built by Schichau-Werke, at their Elbing shipyard. She was launched on 29 April 1915 and completed in September that year. S51 served with the German High Seas Fleet, operating in the North Sea and the English Channel, and took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May–1 June 1916, where she was damaged but survived. At the end of the war, S51 was interned at Scapa Flow and was scuttled on 21 June 1919. The ship was quickly salvaged, and was broken up for scrap in 1922.
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Background
Architecture
On 6 August 1914, as a result of the outbreak of the First World War, the Imperial German Navy placed orders for 48 high-seas torpedo-boats, with 18, including S51, to be built by Schichau-Werke, as part of the 1914 mobilisation order. These ships were based on the last torpedo boats ordered before the outbreak of war, the . S51 was laid down at Schichau's Elbing (now Elbląg in Poland) as yard number 941, was launched on 29 April 1915 and commissioned on 7 September 1915. S51 was 79.6 m long overall and 79.0 m at the waterline, with a beam of 8.36 m and a draught of 3.64 m. Displacement was 802 t normal and 1074 t deep load. Three oil-fired water-tube boilers fed steam to 2 sets of…
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- Coordinates
- 58.8509, -3.1913
- District
- Orkney Islands
- Postcode
- KW16 3NR
- Parliamentary constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
Sources
- wikidata: Q9332522 (CC0)
- wikipedia: SMS S51 (1915) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is SMS S51?
- SMS S51 is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.8509°, -3.1913°.
- Is SMS S51 free to visit?
- Yes — admission to SMS S51 is free.