Name SMS V108 Acquired September 1921 Launched 12 December 1914 Weight 340 tons | Name ORP Kaszub Class and type V105-class destroyer Length 62 m Displacement 340,000 kg | |
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Fate Transferred to Poland, September 1921 Fate destroyed by a boiler explosion, 20 July 1925 | ||
ORP "Kaszub" - torpedo boat (former V-108 of Kaiserliche Marine), one of the first ships of the Polish Navy recreated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. In service from 1921 to 1925.
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History
She was built in 1914 by Stettiner Maschinenbau A.G. Vulcan in Stettin, Germany (now in Poland). She was begun for a Dutch Navy order as Z-4 (along with three sister ships Z-1,Z-2,Z-3), but after the outbreak of World War I she was confiscated by Germany and commissioned as torpedo boat V-108, taking an active part in World War I, fighting in the Baltic Sea against the Imperial Russian Navy.
Polish service
When the German Imperial Navy was divided among victorious powers in 1919 after World War I, Poland was granted six torpedo boats, among them V-108. The ship, then located in Britain, was overhauled there and arrived in Poland in October, 1921, officially entering into service. Poland also received her sister ship, V-105 as well (later the Polish ORP Mazur), and four smaller torpedo boats.
Demise
The ship was sunk by a boiler explosion on July 20, 1925. The causes are unknown to this day. Three crewmen died.