SMS V106

V106 was a torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy, built in the A.G Vulcan Shipyard in 1914. She was originally ordered by the Dutch Navy and confiscated by Germany at the start of World War I; being scrapped in 1920.

Design
V106 was designed by Stettiner Maschinenbau A.G. Vulcan shipyard as a torpedo boat for the Dutch Navy, as part one in a class of four sister ships (Z-1 to Z-4). She was 62.6 m long overall and 62.0 m at the waterline, with a beam of 6.2 m and a maximum draught of 2.5 m. Displacement was 340 t normal and 421 t full load. Two oil-fired and two coal-fired Yarrow boilers fed steam at 18.5 atm to 2 direct-drive steam turbines rated at 5500 PS, giving a speed of 28 kn. 60 t of coal and 16.2 t of oil were carried, giving a range of 1400 nmi at 17 kn or 460 nmi at 20 kn.

She was designed to carry an armament of two 75 mm (3-inch) guns and four 450 mm torpedo tubes, but she was completed with an armament of two 5.2 cm SK L/55 guns (capable of firing a 3.86 lb shell to a range of 7770 yd ) and two 450 mm torpedo tubes.

History
V106 was originally ordered by the Koninklijke Marine (Dutch Navy) as the torpedo boat Z-2 (along with her sister ships Z-1, Z-3 and Z-4), one of four Zeer groot (Dutch: Very large) torpedo boats to be built by A.G. Vulcan in their Stettin, Germany (now in Poland) shipyard. The four ships were taken over while still under construction on 10 August 1914 owing to the outbreak of the First World War. She was launched on 26 August 1915 and commissioned in the Kaiserliche Marine (German Navy) on 25 January 1915.

She was used as a training vessel and a tender during the war. She, along with sister ship SMS V105, was allocated to Brazil in the Treaty of Versailles, but was almost immediately sold and broken up for scrap in Britain in 1920.