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TK-961 motor torpedo boats (1940-1943/1944)

TK-961 1944

Names

TK-961 (ex-¹4 [No4], ex-S201, ex-TM52)

TK-962 (ex-¹5 [No5], ex-S202, ex-TM53)

TK-963 (ex-¹6 [No6], ex-S209, ex-TM69)

TK-964 (ex-¹7 [No7], ex-S210, ex-TM70)

Builders

Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands: TK-961, 962

Gusto, Schiedam, Netherlands // Varna, Bulgaria: TK-963, 964

Commissioned

autumn 1940 // 9.1944: TK-961, 962

autumn 1943 // 9.1944: TK-963, 964

Losses

none

Transfers

Bulgaria, 7.1945: 2 boats

Discarding

1950s: 2 boats

 

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.

3300

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol 11

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/80 Hispano, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (8)

Complement

14

Project history: Ex-Dutch boats captured by Germans on the stocks in May 1940. Two former boats were sold to Bulgaria in January 1941, two latter were transferred incomplete in summer 1943. All were captured by Red Army in September 1944.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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