NAVYPEDIA

Ships

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

Technical data

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.