History
German Empire
Ordered	1914 Peacetime order
Builder	Germaniawerft,Kiel,Germany
Launched	27 February 1915
Commissioned	16 September 1915
Fate	Interned at Scapa Flow 22 November 1918 Scuttled at Scapa Flow 21 June 1919
General characteristics
Displacement	1,051 tonnes
Length	79.5 meters
Beam	8.33 m
Draft	3.74 m (fwd); 3.45 meters (aft)
Speed	34.5 knots (63.9 km/h)
Range	1,100 nautical miles at 20 knots   (2,040 km at 37 km/h)
Complement	83 officers and sailors
Armament	3 ×8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/45 guns 6 × 500 mmtorpedo tubes 24mines

SMSG40 was a 1913 TypeLarge Torpedo Boat (Großes Torpedoboot) of theImperial German Navy (Deutschen Kaiserliche Marine) duringWorld War I, and the 16th ship of her class.

Built byGermaniawerft inKiel,Germany, she was launched in February 1915.

G40 was assigned to the First Torpedo Boat Flotilla of theHigh Seas Fleet of the German Imperial Navy. When she participated in theBattle of Jutland she was assigned to escort the battlecruiserSMSLützow. In this action,Lützow was severely damaged such that she was unable to return to German waters. She assistedSMSG37,SMSG38 andSMSV45 in the evacuation of survivors. Naval gunfire from pursuingBritish vessels subsequently damagedG40's engines and she had to be towed back to German waters.

After the end of hostilities,G40, as a part of the 1st Torpedo Half Flotilla under KapitänleutnantReinhold Henrici (SMS G. 38, SMS G. 39, SMS G. 40, SMS G. 86 and SMS V. 129), was interned atScapa Flow and scuttled on 21 July 1919. She was salvaged for scrap byErnest Cox in 1925.

• Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow

• [1]Technical specs of the Großes Torpedoboot 1913 class

• Torpedo boats of the Imperial German Navy
• 1915 ships
• Ships built in Kiel
• World War I torpedo boats of Germany
• World War I warships scuttled at Scapa Flow
• Maritime incidents in 1919

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