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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

S601 motor torpedo boats (1936-1937/1943-1944)

S601 1943

Names

S601 (ex-MS42, ex-MAS4D, ex-Velebit), S602 (ex-MS43, ex-MAS5D, ex-Dinara), S603 (ex-MS44, ex-MAS6D, ex-Triglav), S604 (ex-MS46, ex-MAS8D, ex-Rudnik), MS41 (ex-MAS3D, ex-Orjen)

Builders

Lürssen, Vegesack: S601 - 604, MS41

Commissioned

1936 // 12.1943: S601, MS41

1936 // 1.1944: S602

1937 // 1.1944: S603

Losses

S604 - incomplete

S603 (14.3.1944), MS41 (28.9.1944)

Transfers

none

Discarding

9.1944: S601, 602

 

Displacement standard, t

51

Displacement full, t

61

Length, m

28.0

Breadth, m

4.46

Draught, m

1.51

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Daimler-Benz BF2 petrol engines / 1 Maybach S5p\ petrol engine for cruising

Power, h. p.

3000 / 100

Max speed, kts

33 / 7

Fuel, t

petrol 5.8

Endurance, nm(kts) 950(7)

Armament

S601 - 603: 2 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (12)

S604: 1 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (12)

Complement

19

Project history: Former Yugoslavian MTBs, built under drawings of German MTB S2, but with petrol engines. In April, 1941 they were captured by Italians and commissioned by them; in September, 1943 they were again captured by Germans. S604 was badly damaged on trials and never commissioned. Ex-MS41 was commissioned by RSI navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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