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TORPEDO SHIPS

SCHLANGE torpedo boats (1905-1906/1940)

nearly sister-ship Dristig 1904

Names

(94) NO21 Schlange (ex-Ørn)

(100) NO22 Eidechse (ex-Lom)

Builders

Marinens Hovedverft, Horten, Norway: NO21 Schlange, NO22 Eidechse

Commissioned

1905 // 4.1940: NO21 Schlange

7.1906 // 6.1940: NO22 Eidechse

Losses

Schlange (16.4.1945)

Transfers

Norway, 5.1945: Eidechse

Discarding

none

 

Displacement normal, t

67

Displacement full, t

75

Length, m

36.2

Breadth, m

4.50

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

23 (really ~17)

Fuel, t

coal 13

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/42 Hotchkiss, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

17 - 19

Project history: ex-Norwegian torpedo boats, used as patrols. Both were captured 9.4.1940 at Horten.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Schlange deserted to Sweden 16.4.1945 and was transferred to Norway in May 1945. Eidechse was also returned to Norway in May, 1945.

Eidechse

 

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