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YUGOSLAVIAN NAVY (YUGOSLAVIA)

COASTAL FORCES

USKOK motor torpedo boats (1928)

Uskok 1928

Names

Ускок [Uskok]

Четник [Četnik]

Builders

Thornycroft, Woolston, UK: Uskok, Četnik

Completed

1928: Uskok, Četnik

Losses

Uskok (17.4.1941 Italian MAS1D), Četnik (17.4.1941 Italian MAS2D)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

15

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

37 - 40

Fuel, t

petrol 1.6

Endurance, nm(kts) 220(32)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

5

Project history: Standard 55ft stepped-hull MTBs of Thornycroft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Uskok and Cetnik were captured in Kotor Bay 17.4.1941 by Italians and commissioned by Italian Navy as MAS1D-2D. MAS1D was lost 19.4.1942 at Mlet island as result of accident; MAS2D (later MS47, ME47) was stricken 1.9.1943 and BU after 1945.

 

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