REPORT OF WRECKS EXAMINATION
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Sebastian Popek popeks@balticwrecks.com
Maciej Rułka maciek@balticwrecks.com
General area: Baltic Sea
Date located: 23.02.2003
Date exam'd/dived:
Vessel name: S-50
Detail of loss: nobody
Method of positioning: GPS
located pos'n: 54° 54 .xxx ˘ N 17° 19 .xxx ˘ E
Depths: least depth: 28 msw
general depth: 31 msw
Contact data
height above bottom: 15 m (net), 2 m (wreck) estimated
Lenght: 43 m measured
Orientation: xx
Other:
Steam torpedo vessel. One fixed pitch propeller. She was one of 23 vessels serie S-43 to S-65. Built by F. Schichau shipyard, Elblag (Maschinenfabrik, Stahl-, Eisen- und Broncegiesserei und Schiffwerft in Elbing).
designed draught 127 t
draught 152 t
L oA 44,20 m
B midship 5,00 m
draft 2,70 m
Propulusion system.
One triple compression steam engine with power of 1571 bhp. One railway type boiler
maximum speed 21,5 kn
range 2160 nm at 10 kn and 650 nm at 17 kn
coal compartment 30 t
weapon:
1 cannon rev. 37 mm, Hotchkissa
3 torpedo lunchers 350 mm
since 1893 r. one 50 mm cannon
crew: 1 officer + 15 seamen
keel put down 1889
launched 4.11.1899
in service since 10.04.1890
1909 boiler replacement
11.11.1910 tactical name changed to T-50
28.09.1914 sunk at bad weather
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