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MUSSON guard ships (1914 - 1915 / 1944)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Муссон [Musson] (ex-Sborul, ex-81T)     STT, Trieste, Austria-Hungary 2/1914 6.8.1914 12/1914 // 9.1944 to Romania 10.1945 (E-2)
Торос [Toros] (ex-Smeul, ex-83F)     Danubius, Porto Ré / Bergudi, Austria-Hungary 11/1913 7.11.1914 7/1915 // 9.1944 to Romania 10.1945 (E-1)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

Musson: 262

Toros: 266

Displacement full, t

Musson: 320

Toros: 330

Length, m

Musson: 57.3 pp 58.2 oa

Toros: 58.5 pp 58.8 oa

Breadth, m

Musson: 5.70

Toros: 5.80

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Musson: 2 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Toros: 2 AEG-Curtis steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

Musson: coal 24 + oil 18

Toros: coal 20 + oil 34

Endurance, nm(kts)

Musson: 1200(16)

Toros: 980(16)

Armament

1 x 1 - 66/30 Škoda K10, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 4 DCT, 2 DCR

Complement

38



Standard scale images


<i>Toros</i> 1944
Toros 1944


Project history

Former Romanian torpedo boats Sborul and Smeul (former Austro-Hungarian 8 and 83F). Both 5.9.1944 were captured by Soviet troops, at Sulina and Constanza respectively and 14.9.1944 commissioned by Black Sea Fleet as Musson and Toros.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Both ships were returned 12.10.1945 to Romania, later renamed E2 and E1 respectively and served in the Romanian Navy to the mid-1950s.