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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | T16 |
| Ordered | 18 September 1937 |
| Builder | Schichau, Elbing, East Prussia |
| Yard number | 1404 |
| Completed | 24 July 1941 |
| Fate | Crippled by bombs, 3 April 1945, scrapped, September 1946 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Type 37 torpedo boat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 85.2 m (279 ft 6 in) o/a |
| Beam | 8.87 m (29 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 119 |
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The German torpedo boat T16 was one of nine Type 37 torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II. Completed in mid-1941, the ship arrived in France in January 1942. She helped to escort a pair of battleships and a heavy cruiser through the English Channel back to Germany in February in the Channel Dash and then was ordered to Norway for escort work. T16 returned to Germany in May to begin a lengthy refit and briefly returned to Norway in May 1943 before going back to Germany. She was assigned to a U-boat Flotilla as a training ship in September. The ship was damaged by a mine in February 1944 and completed her repairs in August. T16 was then assigned to the Baltic Sea where she screened German ships as they bombarded Soviet positions for the rest of the year. The torpedo boat was assigned convoy escort duties in the Skagerrak around the beginning of 1945. During one such mission in April, T16 was badly damaged by British bombers and was deemed a constructive total loss. The ship was scrapped in Denmark beginning in September 1946.