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

TORPEDO SHIPS

MAGNET torpedo gunboat (1896)

Magnet 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Magnet   576 Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1895 31.3.1896 12/1896 to Italy 1920

 

Displacement normal, t

485

Displacement full, t

510

Length, m

67.5 pp

Breadth, m

8.20

Draught, m

3.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Schulz-Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(10)

Armament

6 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

80

Project history: Largest of Austrian "torpedo ships".

Modernizations: 1916: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 2 x 1 - 66/42 SFK L/45, 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Naval service: No significant events.

Magnet 1916

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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