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63.1 fast attack craft (torpedo) (1961-1966)


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63.300 series

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

63.1-63.3

63.31-63.36

63.301-63.330

Peenewerft, Wolgast: 63.1-63.3, 63.31-63.36, 63.301-63.330

1961: 63.1

1962: 63.2

1963: 63.3, 63.31-63.33, 63.35, 63.36

1964: 63.34, 63.301-63.312

1965: 63.313-63.328

1966: 63.329, 63.330

none

none

1961: 63.1

1963: 63.3

1964: 63.2

1966: 63.31

1969: 63.32-63.35

1972: 63.36

1973: 63.301, 63.302, 63.309, 63.314, 63.316, 63.317

1974: 63.303, 63.321

1975: 63.306, 63.310, 63.320, 63.322, 63.328, 63.330

1976: 63.305, 63.308, 63.311-63.313, 63.315, 63.318, 63.323-63.327

1977: 63.304, 63.307, 63.319, 63.329


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

63.1-63.3: 16

others: 17
Displacement full, t

63.1-63.3: 16

others: 17
Length, m

63.1-63.3: 13.8

others: 14.9
Breadth, m

63.1-63.3: 3.60

others: 3.40
Draught, m

63.1-63.3: 0.52

others: 0.60
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 M-50F4 diesels
Power, h. p.

2400
Max speed, kts

52
Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)

230(48)
Armament

2 - 533 TT
Electronic equipment

KSA-5 radar
Complement

63.1-63.3: 2

others: 3


Standard scale images


<i>63.312 </i>1970
63.312 1970


Graphics


<i>63.300 </i>series
63.300 series


Project history

The design for this class was based on the German war-built LS claw light MTBs intended primarily to operate from commerce raiders, and successfully employed by the Kriegsmarine in the Aegean in 1944. The geographical and hydrometeorological conditions in the western part of the Baltic lend themselves to surprise operations carried out by small, ultra-fast FACs both in defensive and offensive roles. The prototypes were ordered simultaneously in June 1958 in four yards, using a variety of hull materials and construction techniques. Peenewerft (design codenamed 'litis' or 'Project 63') and Rosslauer Schiffswerft (design of hydrofoil boat 'Project 81') prepared hulls with aluminium alloy AlMg 4.5, and Yachtwerft, Berlin, built wooden hulls with aluminium alloy frames (design codenamed 'Hydra'). The fourth hull, designed by Boots und Reparaturwerft, Greifswald, was to be made of GRP (codename 'Möwe' Project 58) but did not get further than the planning stage.

Modernizations

1970s, all: - KSA-5 radar; + TSR-222 radar

Naval service

: No significant events.