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TK-970 attack craft (torpedo) (1943 / 1949)

TK-970 1949

Names

TK-970 (ex-MS52)

TK-971 (ex-MS53)

TK-972 (ex-MS61)

TK-973 (ex-MS65)

TK-974 (ex-MS75)

Builders

CRDA, Monfalcone, Italy: TK-970-974

Completed

2 - 6.1943 // 5-7/1949: TK-970-974

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1950s: TK-970-974

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

66

Length, m

28.0

Breadth, m

4.30

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Isotta Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3450

Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

petrol 9

Endurance, nm(kts) 330(31)

Armament

TK-970, 971, 973: (1 - 2) x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 533 TT (4), 2 - 450 TT, 8 DC

TK-972: 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 533 TT (4), 2 - 450 TT, 8 DC

TK-974: (1 - 2) x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 533 TT (4), 2 - 450 TT, 2 SLC human torpedoes or 1 MTSM midget MTB or 1 MTM or 1 MTR explosive boat

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

19

Project history: Italian MS type MTBs transferred by reparations.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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