Cobra-class torpedo boat

	SM Tb 16 (ex-Cobra) before 1920
Class overview
Builders	Yarrow, Poplar, London
Operators	Austro-Hungarian Navy
Succeeded by	Kaiman class
Completed	4
Scrapped	4
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo boat
Displacement	135 t (133 long tons) full load
Length	45.9 m (150 ft 7 in) wl
Beam	4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Draught	2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Installed power	1,800 ihp (1,300 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Yarrow boilers; 1 × triple-expansion steam engine;
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Complement	21
Armament	2× 47 mm (1.9 in) guns; 3 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;

The Cobra class (also known as the Python class) was a class of four torpedo boats built by the British shipbuilder Yarrow for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the late 1890s. All four ships served through the First World War and were scrapped in 1919.

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