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	169k	View of T-35 under US flag in 1945. The Elbing class torpedo boats (or Flottentorpedoboot 1939) were a class of fifteen small warships that served in the Kriegsmarine in World War II. Although classed as Flottentorpedoboot ("Fleet torpedo boat") by the Germans, in most respects - displacement, weaponry, usage - they were comparable to contemporary British medium-size destroyers. The most notable difference was the in the armament with the Elbings being fewer in number and of a slightly smaller calibre - 105 mm compared to the 4.5 inch (114 mm) of contemporary British destroyers such as the L and M class. Service was either in western France from late 1942 until August 1944 or in the Baltic Sea from March 1944 until the end of the war. The design and weapons mix resulted from experience of earlier, more specialised classes such as the Torpedo boat type 35. The Elbings were a radical change to an all-purpose vessel capable of torpedo attacks, anti-aircraft defence and escort duties. These ships adopted unit machinery with two separate engine rooms and two boiler rooms. Their machinery was however relatively unreliable. Construction of the class took place in the Schichau shipyards in Elbing (now Elblag), hence the Allied codename for the class. The first examples were commissioned in late 1942 and the last in late 1944. Photo from Die deutschen Flottentorpedoboote von 1942 bis 1945.		-
	54k	USS T-35 (DD-935), formerly the German torpedo boat T-35, underway off Boston on 14 September 1945.		Robert Hurst
	173k	View of sonar dome on USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) , taken on 20 August 1945, while dry-docked at the Boston Navy Yard in 1945. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 73337.		Mike Green
	132k	Looking aft from the bow, this is a view of the bridge structure of USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) at the Boston Navy Yard, 1945. Note twin German type 20mm guns. At left is the stern of USS Z-39 (DD-939). Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 73341.		Mike Green
	133k	Bow view of USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) in dry-dock at the Boston Navy Yard, August, 1945. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 73353,		Mike Green
	135k	USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) running trials off Boston, Massachusetts on 14 September 1945.
	155k	Starboard quarter view of USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) running trials off Boston, Massachusetts on 14 September 1945. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 73334.		Mike Green
	163k	Starboard broadside view of USS T-35 (DD-935), ex-German torpedo boat T-35) running trials off Boston, Massachusetts on 14 September 1945. Source: Naval History and Heritage Command. NH 73335.		Mike Green

KL Hans-Walter Buch Oct 1944 - May 1945
CDR J. C. Gillespie Wilson    ? 1945 - ?

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