SMS G102

About

SMS G102 was a G101-class large torpedo boat (Großes Torpedoboot) operated by Imperial German Navy during the First World War. The ship was ordered for the Argentine Navy from the German shipyard Germaniawerft as the San Luis, but was still under construction at the start of the war and was seized by Germany. Entering service in April 1915, G102 served with the High Seas Fleet in the North Sea and English Channel, taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

Despite being mined twice, the ship survived to the end of the war. G102 was interned at Scapa Flow after the war, and was present at the Scuttling of the German fleet on 21 June 1919, but did not sink, and was allocated to the United States under the Treaty of Versailles. The ship was sunk as a target by United States Army Air Service aircraft on 13 July 1921.