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STEFANO TÜRR experimental motor torpedo boat (1937)

Stefano Türr 1937

Names

Stefano Türr

Builders

CMA, Marina di Pisa: Stefano Türr

Completed

1937: Stefano Türr

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

7/1941: Stefano Türr

  

Displacement standard, t

59

Displacement full, t

64

Length, m

30.7 pp 32.0 oa

Breadth, m

5.95

Draught, m

0.86

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 Fiat diesels

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 750(25)

Armament

3 x 1 - 13.2/76, 1 x 1 - 6.5/115, 4 - 450 TT, 12 DC

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

16

Project history: Experimental MTB with increased, in comparison with all previous Italian boats, displacement. Design was developed by Baglietto. In a hull structure aluminium alloys were widely used for the weight decrease. Boat was appeared unsuccessful, never reached designed 34kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Stefano Türr during trials

 

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