SMS G37 was a 1913 Type Large Torpedo Boat (Großes Torpedoboot) of the Imperial German Navy during World War I, and the 13th ship of her class.

[6] G37 was assigned to the Sixth Torpedo Boat Flotilla, Twelfth Half-Flotilla, of the High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland.

[7] Early in the battle, she fell astern of the rest of her flotilla, because she had temporarily lost power from a boiler, and fired two torpedoes at British light cruisers at about 17:44 CET (i.e. 16:44 GMT).

[11] Later that night (at about 03:25 CET) the four torpedo boats took part in a brief engagement with the British destroyers Contest and Garland in which neither side received further damage.

The British Admiralty knew about this transfer due to codebreaking by Room 40, and ordered the Harwich Force of cruisers and destroyers to intercept the German torpedo boats.

V69, leader of the flotilla, was hit by three shells, one of which jammed her rudder, forcing her to move in a circle, resulting in G41 colliding with V69, badly damaging both torpedo boats, although both survived.

[16][17] On the night of 25/26 February, the Flanders-based torpedo boats launched a three-pronged attack against Allied shipping in the English Channel and the Dover Barrage.

The 12th Half-Flotilla (including G37) became separated from the rest of the 6th Flotilla and therefore returned to base, while the remaining three ships of the flotilla continued on, torpedoing and badly damaging the destroyer Llewellen before returning to base, while a merchant ship was sunk by the 2nd Zeebrugge Half-Flotilla east of the Downs.

[22] On 4 November 1917 at 04:55 hours, G37 struck a mine, part of a minefield laid on the night of 30/31 May 1917 by the British destroyer Abdiel and the light cruisers Blanche and Royalist, in the southern North Sea off Walcheren Island, Netherlands (54°19′N 04°55′E / 54.317°N 4.917°E / 54.317; 4.917) and sank.