S.M.S. B97
1915
(Navis 61N)
- Class: B97 - 2 destroyers of 1914
- Displacement: 1,374 tons
- Dimensions: 321.5 x 30.5 x 12.25 ft.
- Machinery: Geared turbines, 2 screws. 36,000 s.h.p. = 35.5 knots
- Armament: 4-3.4in (4x1) guns; 6-19.7in (2x2+2x1) TT; 24 mines
- Complement: 114
- Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
- Launched: 15 Dec 1914
- Completed: 1915
- Notes: Designed to take advantage of high-powered turbine sets building for Russian Navy, taken over at start of WWI. First three-funneled German destroyers. Rearmed with 4-4.1in in 1916. Ceded to Italy 25 Mar 1920 as Cesare Rossarol; scrapped 1939.
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