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YUGOSLAVIAN NAVY (YUGOSLAVIA)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

D1 minesweepers (1888-1892/1920)

D1 1920

Names

Ä1 [D1] (ex-Tb 21, ex-Star)

Ä2 [D2] (ex-Tb 36, ex-Uhu)

Ä3 [D3] (ex-Tb 38, ex-Kranich)

Ä4 [D4] (ex-Tb 19, ex-Kibitz)

Builders

Schichau, Elbing, Germany: D1

Marinearsenal Pola, Austria-Hungary: D2 - 4

Completed

1888 // 4.1920: D2 (launched 1886)

1889 // 4.1920: D1 (launched 11.1888), D3 (launched 1887)

1892 // 4.1920: D4 (launched 1890)

Losses

D2 (4/1941 Italian D10)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1924: D1, D3, D4

 

Displacement normal, t

78

Displacement full, t

88

Length, m

39.9

Breadth, m

4.80

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 350(15)

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

16

Project history: Former Austria-Hungarian torpedo boats of Sperber class converted to minesweepers in 1911 - 1913 (D2 and D3) and 1917 (D1 and D4). In the end of 1918 they were transferred under control of Yugoslavia; in 1920 renamed. D2 was used as TS.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: In April, 1941 D2 was captured at Kumbor and commissioned by Italian Navy as D10. 11.9.1943 D10 was captured by German troops; her further fate is unknown.

D2 1931

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