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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

KT2 torpedo boats (1897-1898/1940)

nearly sister-ship Dristig 1904

Names

KT2 (ex-Kvik), 7.1940 - NK03 Musketier

KT3 (ex-Lyn), 1941 - NK03 Musketier

KT4 (ex-Blink), 7.1940 - NK05 Husar

Builders

Fredrikstad Mekaniske, Norway: KT2

Marinens Hovedverft, Trondhejm, Norway: KT3, 4

Commissioned

1898 // 4.1940: KT2

1897 // 4.1940: KT3, 4

Losses

none

Transfers

Norway, 5.1945: NK03 Musketier, NK05 Husar

Discarding

1941: NK03 Musketier

 

Displacement normal, t

45

Displacement full, t

65

Length, m

35.0

Breadth, m

3.80

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

650

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 13

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

21 - 22

Project history: ex-Norwegian torpedo boats converted to patrols in 1930s, used as patrols in German Navy. All were captured 11.4.1940.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All were returned to Norway in May, 1945 and broken up.

 

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