Type 24 torpedo boat

Type 1924 (Raubtier-class) torpedo boats
Class overview
Operators	Reichsmarine  Kriegsmarine
Preceded by	Type 23 torpedo boat
Succeeded by	Type 35 torpedo boat
Built	1927–1929
In commission	1928–1944
Completed	6
Lost	6
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Torpedo boat
Displacement	933 long tons (948 t) (standard) 1,320 long tons (1,340 t) (deep load)
Length	92.6 m (303 ft 10 in) o/a
Beam	8.65 m (28 ft 5 in)
Draft	3.52 m (11 ft 7 in)
Installed power	3 × water-tube boilers 23,000 shp (17,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × geared steam turbine sets
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	1,997 nmi (3,698 km; 2,298 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	127
Armament	3 × single 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns 2 × triple 500 mm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes 30 mines

The Type 24 torpedo boat (also known as the (German: Raubtier (Carnivore) class) was a group of six torpedo boats built for the Reichsmarine during the 1920s. As part of the renamed Kriegsmarine, the boats made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. One was sunk in an accidental collision shortly before the start of World War II in September 1939 and the others escorted ships and searched for contraband for several months of the war. They played a minor role in the Norwegian Campaign of April 1940 and resumed their escort duties. After being transferred to France late in the year, the Type 24s started laying their own minefields in the English Channel.

The surviving boats were refitted in early 1941 and were then transferred to the Skaggerak for escort duties. By the beginning of 1942 there were only two survivors and they were transferred back to France to participate in the Channel Dash. Another boat was lost a few months later trying to escort a commerce raider through the Channel in May. The last surviving boat, Jaguar, spent the next several years laying minefields, escorting blockade runners and U-boats through the Bay of Biscay and convoys in Norwegian waters. Shortly after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, she was sunk by British bombers.