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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

S201 motor torpedo boats (1940)

S201 1940

Names

S201 - S209 (ex-TM52, TM53, TM63 - TM69)

Builders

Gusto, Schiedam: S201 - 209

Commissioned

8-9/1940: S201, 202

Losses

cancelled: S203 - S209

Transfers

Bulgaria, 1942: S201, S202 (S1, S2)

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

30.8

Displacement full, t

38.3

Length, m

21.4

Breadth, m

6.05

Draught, m

1.14

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Rolls-Royce Merlin petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3300

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol 11

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (6)

Complement

14

Project history: Boats were built by Gusto under licence of British Power Boat for Dutch Navy as TM52, 53, 63-70; in June, 1940 they were captured on slipways and as S201-210 were included to German fleet list. Only S201 and 202 were commissioned by Kriegsmarine, 6 others were transferred to Romania and 2 to Bulgaria (including one unnumbered).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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