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TK-951 motor torpedo boats (1943-1944/1944)

TK-951 1944

Names

TK-951 (ex-Vedenia, ex-S203, ex-TM63)

TK-952 (ex-Vantul, ex-S204, ex-TM64)

TK-953 (ex-Vijelia, ex-S205, ex-TM65)

TK-954 (ex-Viforul, ex-S206, ex-TM66)

TK-956 (ex-Vartejul, ex-S207, ex-TM67)

TK-957 (ex-Vulcanul, ex-S208, ex-TM68)

Builders

Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands // Santieri Galati, Galats, Romania: TK-951-957

Commissioned

late 1943 // 9.1944: TK-951, 952, 957

4-5/1944 // 9.1944: TK-953, 954, 956

Losses

none

Transfers

Romania, 10.1945: TK-951-957

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

30.8

Displacement full, t

38.3

Length, m

21.4

Breadth, m

6.05

Draught, m

1.14

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Rolls-Royce Merlin petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2850

Max speed, kts

35

Fuel, t

petrol 11

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/80 Hispano, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (6)

Complement

14

Project history: Ex-Dutch boats captured by Germans on the stocks in May 1940 and sold incomplete to Romania late 1941. All were captured by Red Army in September 1944.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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