SMS V30
SMS V30 was a of the Imperial German Navy that served during the First World War. The ship was built by AG Vulcan at Stettin in Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), and was completed in November 1914. V30 served in the North Sea, the Baltic and the English Channel, taking part in the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915, the Battle of Jutland on 31 May/1 June 1916 and the Battle of Dover Strait in October 1916. She survived the war but was sunk by a mine on the way to be interned in Britain on 20 November 1918. Construction and design In 1913, the Imperial German Navy placed orders for 12 high-seas torpedo boats, with six each ordered from AG Vulcan (V25–V30) and Schichau-Werke (S31–S36). While the designs built by each shipyard were broadly similar, they differed from each other in detail, and were significantly larger and more capable than the small torpedo boats built for the German Navy in the last two years. V30 was laid down as yard number 351 at AG Vulcan's Stettin shipyard, was launched on 18 September 1914 and commissioned on 16 November