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The Elbing class torpedo boats (or Flottentorpedoboot 1939) were a class of fifteen small warships that served in the Kriegsmarine in World War II. Although classed as Flottentorpedoboot ("Fleet torpedo boat") by the Germans, in most respects - displacement, weaponry, usage - they were comparable to contemporary British medium-size destroyers. The most notable difference was the in the amarment with the Elbings being fewer in number and of a slightly smaller calibre - 105 mm compared to the 4.5 inch (114 mm) of contemporary British destroyers such as the L and M class.
   Service was either in western France from late 1942 until August 1944 or in the Baltic Sea from March 1944 until the end of the war.
   The design and weapons mix resulted from experience of earlier, more specialised classes such as the Torpedo boat type 35. The Elbings were a radical change to an all-purpose vessel capable of torpedo attacks, anti-aircraft defence and escort duties. These ships adopted unit machinery with two separate engine rooms and two boiler rooms. Their machinery was however relatively unreliable.
   They were effective fighting vessels, a notable success being the sinking of the British cruiser and the escort destroyer Limbourne by torpedoes, off Brittany in late 1943 and HMCS Athabaskan in 1944. The 4th TorpedoBoat Flotilla (T22, T23, T25, T25 and T26) had been protecting an important blockade runner though despite their success it ran aground and was lost. Three ships (T22, T30, T32) were accidentally lost on 18 August 1943 on the German minefield in the Gulf of Finland.
   Construction of the class took place in the Schichau shipyards in Elbing (now Elbląg), hence the Allied codename for the class. The first examples were commissioned in late 1942 and the last in late 1944.

The ships

The ships were unnamed, but numbered T22 to T36.

	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
T22	1940	1941	28 February 1942	sunk 18 August 1944 - mined in the Baltic
T23	1940	14 June 1941	14 June 1942	scrapped February 1955, after serving in the French Navy as the Alsacien
T24	1940	13 September 1941	17 October 1942	sunk 24 August 1944, by aircraft launched rockets near Bordeaux
T25	1940	1 December 1941	12 December 1942	sunk 28 December 1943, by British cruisers and in the Bay of Biscay (Operation Stonewall)
T26	1941	18 February 1942	27 February 1943	sunk 28 December 1943, by British cruisers and in the Bay of Biscay (Operation Stonewall)
T27	1941	20 August 1942	17 April 1943	sunk 4 May 1944, driven aground by and sunk by aircraft the following day
T28	1941	24 June 1942	19 June 1943	escaped from western France after D-Day, scrapped 1959, after serving in the French Navy as the Lorraine
T29	1942	16 January 1943	21 August 1943	sunk 26 April 1944, by and other Canadian destroyers near Brittany
T30	1942	13 March 1943	24 October 1943	sunk 18 August 1944 - mined in the Gulf of Finland
T31	1942	22 May 1943	5 February 1944	sunk 20 June 1944 by Soviet Navy MTB
T32	1942	17 July 1943	8 May 1944	sunk 18 August 1944 - mined in the Gulf of Finland
T33	1942	4 September 1943	15 June 1944	scrapped 1957-1958 after serving in the Soviet Navy as the Primerniy
T34	1942	23 October 1943	12 August 1944	sunk 24 November 1944 - mined near Arkona
T35	1942	11 December 1943	7 October 1944	scrapped 3 October 1952 - transferred to France and used for spare parts
T36	1942	5 February 1944	9 December 1944	sunk 5 May 1945, damaged by a mine near Swinemünde and sunk by bombing

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