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TM III motor torpedo boat (1938)

Names

TM III

Builders

Marine Etablissement Sourabaja, Surabaya: TM III

Commissioned

1938: TM III

Losses

TM III (2.3.1942)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

 

Displacement standard, t

13

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.6

Breadth, m

3.80

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 aircraft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1260

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

6

Project history: Built at Surabaya, experimental MTB. Steel-hulled, hard-chine, stepless. Aviation motors. MTB was armed with torpedo tubes, removed from the old ships. The boat construction has appeared unsuccessful and actually she has not been finished to efficient condition.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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