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SMS V44
SMS V44 in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
SMS V44 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 V44 was a V25-class Large Torpedo Boat (Großes Torpedoboot) of the Imperial German Navy, that served during the First World War. V44 was built by AG Vulcan at their Stettin shipyard from 1914–1915, entering service on 22 July that year. V44 took part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, and also operated in the English Channel and the Baltic. She survived the war, and was interned at Scapa Flow, surviving the Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow. She was used as a target by the British at Portsmouth, and later scrapped in-situ in 1922, although remnants of the ship remain in Portsmouth Harbour.
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Background
Architecture
V44 was the second ship in the second batch of six V25-class torpedo boats (V43–V48) ordered from AG Vulcan for the Imperial German Navy on 22 April 1914, as part of the 1914 shipbuilding programme.{{#tag:ref|The Imperial German Navy's practice was to split a year's orders into half-flotillas of six torpedo boats from different builders, to differing detailed design. V44 was 79.6 m long overall and 78.8 m between perpendiculars, with a beam of 8.3 m and a draft of 3.6 m. Displacement was 952 t normal and 1106 t deep load. Three oil-fired water-tube boilers fed steam to 2 sets of AEG-Vulcan steam turbines rated at 24000 PS, giving a speed of 33.5 kn. 338 t of fuel oil was carried, giving a…
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- Coordinates
- 58.8454, -3.2019
- District
- Orkney Islands
- Postcode
- KW16 3NU
- Parliamentary constituency
- Orkney and Shetland
- Established
- 1915
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is SMS V44?
- SMS V44 is in the Scottish Islands, United Kingdom (postcode KW16 3NU).
- When was SMS V44 built?
- Built or established in 1915.
- How do I get to SMS V44?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode KW16 3NU. It sits within the Orkney and Shetland parliamentary constituency.