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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

TEIST 2nd class torpedo boats (1908-1913)

Teist 1914

Skarv 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Teist     MV Horten   14.12.1906 7.1908 scuttled 14.4.1940
Skarv     MV Horten   18.2.1907 1908 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (Gazelle)
Kjell     MV Horten   12.3.1912 1913 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (Tiger)

 

  

Displacement normal, t

92

Displacement full, t

103

Kjell: 108

Length, m

41.1

Breadth, m

4.70

Draught, m

2.30

Kjell: 2.40

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1700

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

coal 15

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 47/46 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Kjell: 1 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

21

Project history: Development of Ravn class. Last ship of class, Kjell, was built under the advanced design, was larger and had more powerful artillery, but the number of deck TTs was shrank from two to one. By 1940 ships of this class can make no more than 20kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Skarv 9.4.1940 was captured by German minesweeper M1 in Egersund and commissioned by Germans (lost 27.9.1942 as a result of collision). Teist was scuttled by crew 14.4.1940 in Flekke-fjord, later salvaged by Germans and commissioned as NH02. Kjell was captured by German troops at Kristiansand and commissioned under name Tiger, sunk by Allied aircraft 28.9.1944.

 

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