Viscolul 1940
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Names |
1 Viforul (ex-MTB20) 2 Vijelia (ex-MTB21) 3 Viscolul (ex-MTB23) |
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Builders |
Vosper, Portsmouth, UK: Viforul, Vijelia, Viscolul |
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Completed |
6-12/1939 // 2.1940: Viforul, Vijelia, Viscolul |
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Losses |
Viforul (9.11.1941), Vijelia (9.11.1941), Viscolul (5.9.1944 Soviet TK-955) |
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Transfers |
none |
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Discarding |
none |
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Displacement standard, t |
32 |
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Displacement full, t |
37 |
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Length, m |
21.9 |
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Breadth, m |
4.98 |
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Draught, m |
1.02 deep load |
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No of shafts |
3 |
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Machinery |
3 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines |
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Power, h. p. |
3450 |
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Max speed, kts |
42 |
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Fuel, t |
petrol 7 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
2 x 4 - 7.7/66, 2 - 533 TT, 8 DC or 4 mines |
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Complement |
14 |
Project history: Former British MTBs bought by Romania in January, 1940. They were transferred under Romanian flag 16.2.1940, had hull numbers 1-3 respectively. In April-May, 1940 they passed from Portsmouth by French internal waterways to Marseilles where have been loaded onboard of s/s Peles, which arrived in May in 1940 to Galatz. Wooden-hulled.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Viscolul was returned by USSR in September 1945 but never commissioned due to bad condition.
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