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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
1 Viforul (ex-MTB20) 2 Vijelia (ex-MTB21) 3 Viscolul (ex-MTB23)	Vosper, Portsmouth, UK: Viforul, Vijelia, Viscolul	6-12/1939 // 2.1940: Viforul, Vijelia, Viscolul	Viforul (9.11.1941), Vijelia (9.11.1941), Viscolul (5.9.1944 Soviet TK-955)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	32
Displacement full, t	37
Length, m	21.9
Breadth, m	4.98
Draught, m	1.02 deep load
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines
Power, h. p.	3450
Max speed, kts	42
Fuel, t	petrol 7
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 4 - 7.7/66, 2 - 533 TT, 8 DC or 4 mines
Complement	14

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Project history

Former British MTBs bought by Romania in January, 1940. They were transferred under Romanian flag 16.2.1940, had hull numbers 1-3 respectively. In April-May, 1940 they passed from Portsmouth by French internal waterways to Marseilles where have been loaded onboard of s/s Peles, which arrived in May in 1940 to Galatz. Wooden-hulled.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Viscolul was returned by USSR in September 1945 but never commissioned due to bad condition.