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SPERBER torpedo boats (1886)


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Sperber after reboilering

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Sperber, 1910- 31

Habicht, 1910- 32

Schichau, Elbing, Germany: Sperber, Habicht

1886: Sperber, Habicht

none

Italy, 1920: 31, 32

none



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

78

Displacement full, t93
Length, m

39.9 wl

Breadth, m

4.80

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

970

Max speed, kts

18.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)1200(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 SFK L/23 H, 2 - 356 TT (bow)

Complement

16



Graphics


<i>Sperber </i>after reboilering
Sperber after reboilering


Project history

Standard Schichau boats.

Modernizations

1905, both: were reboilered with 2 oil-burning Yarrow boilers with two funnels.

1914, 32; 1916, 31: + sweeps

Naval service

Both were transferred to Italy in 1920, 31 was immediately broken up but 32 served as customs patrol boat at Trieste till 1925.