PM1 1940
PN11 1950
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Names |
PM1 PM2 PN11 (ex-PM3), later- PN31, 1950s- PN34 PM4 - 6 |
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Builders |
Danubius, Budapest: PM1, 2, 4 - 6; PN11 |
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Commissioned |
1940: PM1 1949: PN11 |
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Losses |
PM2, 4 - 6: sunk incomplete late 1944 (two were completed in 1956 as PN31 and PN32) PM1 (captured by USA 5.1945) |
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Transfers |
none |
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Discarding |
1973: PN34 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement full, t |
38 |
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Length, m |
28.0 |
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Breadth, m |
3.70 |
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Draught, m |
PM1: 0.60 PN11: 1.10 |
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No of shafts |
PM1: 3 PN11: 2 |
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Machinery |
PM1: 3 Junkers diesels PN11: 2 Lang MP35 diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
PM1: 480 PN11: 420 |
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Max speed, kts |
PM1: 20.5 PN11: 13.5 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armour, mm |
PM1: belt: 13, deck: 20, turrets: 40, CT: 40 PN11: belt, deck, CT: up to 30 |
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Armament |
PM1: 2 x (1 - 40/43 Škoda A17, 2 - 8.3/83), 2 x 1 - 8.3/83 PN11: 2 x 1 - 37/73 70K, 1 x 1 - 82/11 mortar |
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Complement |
16 |
Project history: Fast shallow-draught armoured motor gunboats, projected and built by Hanz Danubius
at Budapest. They were armed by 40mm/45 tank guns in turrets. In each of turrets also two 8mm MGs were placed, two more MGs were installed on movable mounts in aft part of deck house and could fire through one of three loophopes. The armoured
citadel defended deck house, magazines and machinery. Complexity of manoeuvring on high
speed (when the bow too strongly went out water, covering the view from low deck house) appeared the basic lack of the project.
Building of 5 more boats was begun in 1942-1943, by late 1944 they remained
incomplete, and already launched hulls were scuttled. Only in 1949 salvaged PM3
was commissioned as PN11 in significantly altered kind and Soviet
armament. Two more boats were salvaged in the late forties and completed in 1956 under the changed project as PN31 and PN32. All three
were written off in 1973.
Ship protection: Bullet-proof protection of the hull and turrets from Turán I tanks.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Lead PM1 was 25.11.1944 hard damaged by Soviet artillery at Cepel. In May, 1945 she surrendered to Americans. Till now her hull is used as a hulk at Passau.
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