Uchka 1965
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Дурмитор [Durmitor] (ex-Ariete) | РЕ53 [RE53] | Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy | 7.1942 | 6.3.1943 | 8.1943 // 4.1949 | stricken 1963 | |
Учка [Uchka] | РЕ54 [RE54] | 236 | CNQ, Fiume, Italy // 3 Maj, Rijeka | 9.1942 | 4.10.1947 | 1949 | stricken 1968 |
Велебит [Velebit] | 237? | CNQ, Fiume (3 Maj, Rijeka) | 8.1942 | 31.1.1943 | --- | cancelled 1949 |
Displacement standard, t |
745 |
Displacement full, t |
1110 |
Length, m |
81.1 pp 83.5 oa |
Breadth, m |
8.62 |
Draught, m |
3.15 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 3-drum boilers |
Power, h. p. |
22000 |
Max speed, kts |
31.5 |
Fuel, t |
oil 210 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 1500(16) |
Armament |
RE53: 2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1937, 3 x 2 - 20/70 Breda 1935, 4 x 1 - 20/65 Breda 1940, 2 x 3 - 450 TT, 2 DCT RE54: 2 x 1 - 100/47 OTO 1937, 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 DCT, 28 mines |
Electronic equipment | radar, sonar |
Complement |
150 |
Project history: Former Italian Ariete class torpedo boats. Completed prototype, Ariete, was transferred as war reparations and commissioned as Durmitor. Two others of this class TA46 (ex-Balestra) and TA47 (ex-Fionda) seized incomplete by the Germans in 1943, were taken over by the Yugoslav Navy in 1948 and renamed Uchka and Velebit respectively. Only Uchka was completed in 1949.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
© Ivan Gogin, 2016