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TM III motor torpedo boat (1938)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

TM III

Marine Etablissement Sourabaja, Surabaya: TM III

1938: TM III

TM III (2.3.1942)

none

none



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

13

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.6

Breadth, m

3.80

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 aircraft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1260

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

6



Project history

Built at Surabaya, experimental MTB. Steel-hulled, hard-chine, stepless. Aviation motors. MTB was armed with torpedo tubes, removed from the old ships. The boat construction has appeared unsuccessful and actually she has not been finished to efficient condition.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.