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The Schichau class consisted of 22 torpedo boats built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy between 1885 and 1891. Initially powered by steam from a locomotive boiler and armed with two 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns and two 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes, they all received two Yarrow boilers and a second funnel between 1900 and 1910. Ten were converted into minesweepers between 1911 and 1913. One boat was discarded in 1911 and the rest saw active service as part of local defence forces for Adriatic naval bases during World War I. The nine torpedo boats which survived were also converted to minesweepers in 1917. After the war, sixteen of the boats were allocated to Italy and four to the Royal Yugoslav Navy. All of the boats had been discarded by 1929 except for one Yugoslav vessel. Captured during the 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia it served with the Italians and then the Germans and was lost sometime after September 1943. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ships of the Royal Yugoslav Navy.)
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Hi Peacemaker67 and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:06, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks Gog the Mild, I've adjusted it slightly (now 1,006 characters). Cheers as always, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 22:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)