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CZECHOSLOVAKIAN RIVER FLOTILLA (CZECHOSLOVAKIA)

RIVER BOATS

DČ-1 river motor gunboat (1949)

DČ-1 1950

Names

DČ-1

Builders

Balatonfüred, Hungary // ČKD Ústecká: DČ-1

Commissioned

1949: DČ-1

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1959: DČ-1

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

30

Length, m

20.1

Breadth, m

4.20

Draught, m

0.90 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 BMW VI petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  
Armour, mm deck: 12, turret: 80, CT: 12

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/48 KwK40, 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38

Complement

12

Project history: German armoured motor gunboat PiSi 42/43, abandoned incomplete by Germans in 1945 and completed for Czechoslovakian river flotilla.

Modernizations: 1954: re-engined with 2 V-22 diesels (1000hp)

Naval service: No significant events.

DČ-1 1956

© Ivan Gogin, 2016