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K-U-K MARINE - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NAVY (AUSTRIA-HUNGARY)

COASTAL FORCES

MB107 armoured motor torpedo boats (1918)

Names

Mb.107 - 115

Builders

Marinearsenal Pola: Mb.107 - 109

STT, Triest: Mb.110 - 115

Commissioned

10/1918: Mb.107

Losses

BU incomplete: Mb.108 - 115

Transfers

Italy, 1920: Mb.107 (customs boat)

Discarding

none

 

Displacement normal, t

24.6

Displacement full, t

27

Length, m

24.6

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 6-cyl Austro-Daimler aero-engines

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

petrol
Endurance, nm(kts) 450(15)
Armour, mm up to 40mm

Armament

1 x 1 - 66/27 G. L/30 K.09 TAG/BAG, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 450 TT (bow), DCs

Complement

11

Project history: Ordered 9 December 1916 to a design submitted by naval constructor Eckert von Labin, only 3 of the projected 9 boats were launched, between July 1917 and August 1918 at the Pola N Yd; the 6 further boats ordered from Austriawerft were never launched due to material and manpower shortages. They were designed to carry 40mm armour, and to make 26.5kts at 24t or 24.5kts at 26t.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Mb107 was ceded to Italy in 1920 and was used by the Italian Customs Service until 1925; the two other boats were probably scrapped immediately.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014