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TORPEDO SHIPS

"Nicholson" (No1) torpedo boats (1906)

No1 1912

Names

¹1 [No1], 9.1937- ÂÐ-11 [VR-11], 5.1939- ¹351 [No351], 10.1939- ¹211 [No211], 7.1941- ¹511 [No511], 9.1941- ¹312 [No312], 1.1945- MO-312

¹2 [No2], 9.1937- ÂÐ-12 [VR-12], 5.1939- ¹352 [No352], 10.1939- ¹212 [No212]

¹3 [No3]

¹4 [No4], 9.1937- ÂÐ-13 [VR-13], 5.1939- ¹353 [No353], 10.1939- ¹213 [No213]

¹5 [No5], 1929- Ïèëîò [Pilot], 1.1932- Â-3 [V-3], 4.1937- ÂÑ-4 [VS-4], 9.1937- ÂÐ-14 [VR-14], 5.1939- ¹354 [No354], 10.1939- ¹214 [No214]

¹6 [No6], 1929- Ìîðë¸ò [Morlyot], 1.1932- Â-2 [V-2], 9.1937- ÂÐ-15 [VR-15], 5.1939- ¹355 [No355], 10.1939- ¹215 [No215]

¹7 [No7], 9.1937- ÂÐ-16 [VR-16], 5.1939- ¹356 [No356], 10.1939- ¹216 [No216]

¹8 [No8]

¹9 [No9], 9.1937- ÂÐ-17 [VR-17], 5.1939- ¹357 [No357], 10.1939- ¹217 [No217]

¹10 [No10]

Builders

Flint, USA: No1

Lazarev Admiralty, Sevastopol: No2 - 10

Completed

1906: No1 - 10

1937: VR-13 (ex-No4) (again)

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1924: No3, 8, 10

1929: No4 (first time)

1940: No212 - 217

1/1950: MO-312

 

Displacement normal, t

35

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

27.4

Breadth, m

3.70

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 gasoline engines

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

gasoline

Endurance, nm(kts) 400(11)

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

11

Project history: First ever motor torpedo boats. These boats were commissioned as motor launches but reclassified as small torpedo boats in October 1907. No5 and No6 served as dispatch vessels from 1929 but all survived boats were reclassified as small submarine chasers in 1937 and as motor launches in 1939. Boat No211 (ex-No1)  was reclassified again as submarine chaser in July 1941.

Modernizations: 1937, VR-11: - 1 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.6/94, 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 45/43 21K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCR

1943, No312: - 2 x 1 - 45/43, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/79

Naval service: No significant events.

MO-312

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