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ROMANIAN NAVY (ROMANIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

VIFORUL torpedo boats (1914/1920)

Sborul 1941

Sborul 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Viforul (ex-Tb 74T)     STT, San Marco, Austria-Hungary 4.1913 28.8.1913 2.1914 // 7.1920 stricken 1932
Vartejul (ex-TB 75T)     STT, San Marco, Austria-Hungary 5.1913 20.11.1913 7.1914 // 7.1920 stricken 1932
Vijelia (ex-Tb 80T)     STT, San Marco, Austria-Hungary 12.1913 3.8.1914 11.1914 // 7.1920 stricken 1932
Sborul (ex-Tb 81T), 10.1945- E2 E2   STT, San Marco, Austria-Hungary 2.1914 6.8.1914 12.1914 // 7.1920 captured by USSR 5.9.1944 (Ìóññîí [Musson]), returned 10.1945, BU 1958

 

Displacement normal, t

262

Displacement full, t

320

Length, m

57.3 pp 58.2

Breadth, m

5.70

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

coal 24 + oil 18

Endurance, nm(kts) 980(16)

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/27 G. L/30 K.16 BAG, 1 x 1 - 66/27 G. L/30 K.09, 1 x 1 - 8.3/66, 2 x 2 - 450 TT

Complement

41

Project history: Former Austro-Hungarian torpedo boats, transferred Romania on reparations in 1920.

Modernizations: 1939, Sborul: - 1 x 1 - 75/27, 1 x 1 - 8.3/66; + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

1943-1944, Sborul: - 2 x 2 - 450 TT

Naval service: Sborul was damaged by Soviet aircraft at Sulina 21.8.1944. Sborul 5.9.1944 was captured by Soviet troops at Sulina, 14.9.1944 commissioned by Soviet Navy as guard ship Musson and 12.10.1945 returned to Romania.

Sborul 1934

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