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S601 torpedo boats (1936 - 1937 / 1943 - 1944)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

S601 (ex-MS42, ex-MAS4D, ex-Velebit), S602 (ex-MS43, ex-MAS5D, ex-Dinara), S603 (ex-MS44, ex-MAS6D, ex-Triglav), S604 (ex-MS46, ex-MAS8D, ex-Rudnik), MS41 (ex-MAS3D, ex-Orjen)

Lürssen, Vegesack: S601 - 604, MS41

1936 // 12.1943: S601, MS41

1936 // 1.1944: S602

1937 // 1.1944: S603

S604 - incomplete

S603 (14.3.1944), MS41 (28.9.1944)

none

 9.1944: S601, 602


Technical data


Displacement standard, t51
Displacement full, t61
Length, m

28.0
Breadth, m

4.46
Draught, m

1.51
No of shafts

3
Machinery

3 Daimler-Benz BF2 petrol engines / 1 Maybach S5p\ petrol engine for cruising
Power, h. p.

3000 / 100
Max speed, kts

33 / 7
Fuel, t

petrol 5.8
Endurance, nm(kts)950(7)
Armament

S601 - 603: 2 x 1 - 20/65 M1940, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (12)

S604: 1 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 1 x 1 - 15/84, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (12)
Complement

19


Standard scale images


<i> S601</i> 1943
S601 1943


Project history

Former Yugoslavian MTBs, built under drawings of German MTB S2, but with petrol engines. In April, 1941 they were captured by Italians and commissioned by them; in September, 1943 they were again captured by Germans. S604 was badly damaged on trials and never commissioned. Ex-MS41 was commissioned by RSI navy.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.