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TORPEDO SHIPS

SEEPFERD torpedo boat (1895/1940)

nearly sister-ship Dristig 1904

Names

(74) NO27 Seepferd (ex-Varg)

Builders

Carl Johansvaerns Vaerft, Horten, Norway: NO27 Seepferd

Commissioned

1895 // 12.1940: NO27 Seepferd

Losses

none

Transfers

Norway, 5.1945: Seepferd

Discarding

none

 

Displacement normal, t

43

Displacement full, t

65

Length, m

34.0

Breadth, m

3.75

Draught, m

1.75

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

650

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal 11

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.9/79, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

9

Project history: ex-Norwegian torpedo boat converted to transport boat in 1930s, captured 21.10.1940 and used as patrol in German Navy.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Boat was returned to Norway in May, 1945 and immediately broken up.

 

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