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YUGOSLAVIAN NAVY (YUGOSLAVIA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

DURMITOR torpedo boats (1943/1949, 1949)

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