The A class torpedo boat

Torpedo boat

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and...

s were a class of German single-funnelled torpedo boat/light destroyer designed by the Marineamt

Marineamt

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 for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders

Flanders

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 in the First World War. The A designation was to avoid confusion with older classes and designs.

Six groups of vessels were built under the class between 1914 and 1918, increasing in displacement from 109 tons to 335 tons. All had a raised forecastle, shallow draught, and carried 45 cm (18 in) torpedo tubes amidships.

A1 - A25

• A2 and A6 were sunk by British destroyers on 1 May 1915 during the Battle off Noordhinder Bank
  Battle off Noordhinder Bank
  The Battle off Noordhinder Bank on 1 May 1915 was a naval action between a squadron of four British naval trawlers supported by a flotilla of four British destroyers, and a pair of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla. The battle began when the two torpedo boats were sent on a search and...
  
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• A3 was lost in 1915.
• A15 was sunk by French destroyers on 23 August 1915.
• A13 was bombed in dock in 1917.
• A10 was sunk by mines in 1918.
• A7 and A19 were sunk by British and French destroyers on 21 March 1918.
• A1, A18 and A21–A25 surrendered and were stricken between 1921-1922.
• A11 and A17 were sunk during the Kapp Putsch
  Kapp Putsch
  The Kapp Putsch — or more accurately the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch — was a 1920 coup attempt during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic...
  
   in 1920.
• A4, A5, A8, A9, A14, A16 and A20 were handed over to Belgium as reparations, then decommissioned and scrapped in 1927.
• A12 survived both World Wars and was finally scrapped in 1948.

A26 - A55

• A26–A29, A31, A33–A39, A41, A44–A46, A48, A49, and A52–A55 were surrendered and stricken between 1920-1921.
• A30, A40, A42 and A47 were scuttled in 1927
• A32 was sunk during the "Operation Albion
  Operation Albion
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  " in 1917, raised and repaired in 1923, and served as Sulev in the Estonian Navy
  Estonian Navy
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  . Taken by Russia in October 1940, it was renamed Аметист ("Amethyst") and served in the Soviet Navy
  Soviet Navy
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   as a patrol vessel until scrapped in 1950.
• A43 was scrapped in 1943.
• A50 was mined in 1917.
• A51 was scuttled in 1918.

A56 - A79

• A60 was mined in 1917.
• A56–A58 were mined in 1918.
• A61 and A62 were transferred to Britain in 1920, scrapped in 1923.
• A63 and A66 were given to France in 1920, scrapped in 1923.
• A64 and A68 were given to Poland in 1920, scuttled off Danzig in 1939.
• A65 was given to Brazil, and scuttled in Britain.
• A67 was scrapped incomplete in 1921.
• A59 was scrapped in 1927.
• A69, A70, A74–A76, and A78 were stricken in 1920.
• A71, A73, A77 and A79 were mined in 1918.

A80 - A91

• A81, A86–A91 were stricken in 1920.
• A82 was scuttled at Fiume in 1918.
• A80 was scrapped in 1938.
• A83–A85 were scrapped incomplete, 1919.

A92 - A113

• A92–A95 were stricken, 1920.
• A96–A113 were scrapped while still on the stocks, 1919