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"TMIII" type ex-Dutch motor torpedo boat (1938/1943)

Names

第101号魚雷艇 [101-go] (ex-TMIII)

Builders

Soerabaja Droogdok, Netherlands: 101-go

Commissioned

1938 / 4.1943: 101-go

Losses

101-go (never fully completed)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement normal, t

15

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.3

Breadth, m

3.78

Draught, m

0.99

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Otto aircraft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1260

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/80, 2 - 450 TT (designed)

none (as commissioned)

Complement

6

Project history: Former Dutch TĚ-3, captured by Japanese in Surabaya in foundered condition. Boat was raised, repaired and entered service but never received armament. She probably never put to sea because of problems with machinery.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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