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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

TRYGG 1st class torpedo boats (1920-1923)

Trygg 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Trygg     MV Moss / MV Horten 1917 31.5.1919 1920 sunk 25.4.1940
Snøgg     MV Horten 1917 2.9.1920 1921 captured by Germany 5.5.1940 (Zack)
Stegg     MV Horten 1917 16.6.1921 1923 sunk 20.4.1940

 

  

Displacement normal, t

220

Displacement full, t

256

Length, m

53.0

Breadth, m

5.50

Draught, m

1.80 normal 2.00 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

3500

Max speed, kts

25

Stegg: 24

Fuel, t

oil 33

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, mines

Complement

33

Project history: Torpedo boats were built under the project developed in design bureau of Horten N Yd and intended for operations in fjords. To the Second World War beginning they could keep only 20kts speed.

Modernizations: ~1939, all: - 1 x 1 - 76/28; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II, 2 DCR (8-10)

Naval service: Snøgg was captured by German armed trawler 4.5.1940 in Florö (Sunn-fjord) and commissioned by Germans as Zack. Was lost 6.9.1943. Stegg was sunk 20.4.1940 in Hardangerfjord by gunfire of German TS Bremse. Trygg 25.4.1940 was hardly damaged by German aircraft at Aandalsnes and ran aground. In the summer of 1940 she was salvaged by Germans and commissioned them as Zick, sunk by allied aircraft 23.10.1944.

Snøgg

 

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