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TM-200bis type motor torpedo boats (1946-1948)

 

TK-455 1946

 

Names

TK-455 - 459

TK-708 - 711

TK-741 - 750

Builders

341 Yd, Rybinsk: TK-455-459, 708-711, 741-750

Commissioned

1946 - 1948: TK-455 - 459, 708 - 711, 741 - 750

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1951-1953: TK-455 - 459, 708 - 711, 741 - 750

 

 

Displacement standard, t

44

Displacement full, t

46

Length, m

23.4

Breadth, m

4.00

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

petrol 5

Endurance, nm(kts) 850(7)

Armament

3 x 2 - 12.7/79, 2 - 533 TT, 4 DC

Complement

11

Project history: In 1942 working out of project 200 MTB and small submarine chaser in unified hull has begun, and latter was designed in wooden and metallic hull variants. MTBs of TM-200 type (torpedo boat, metallic hull) appeared overloaded and slow-speed. Variant TM-200  appeared a little better and was built in small series after war.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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