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V2 VIHURI class motor torpedo boats

G-5 type X series MTB

G-5 type XIbis series MTB

Names

V2 Vihuri (ex-¹141 <No141>, ex-¹144 <No144>, ex-¹141 <No141>); V3 Viima (ex-¹64 <No64>, ex-¹121 <No121>, ex-¹184 (i) <No184>), 1/1944 - V1 Viima; V3 (ex-TK-51, ex-¹51 <No51>, ex-¹54 <No54>, ex-¹51 <No51>, ex-¹71 <No71>)

 

MTBs were built in USSR in nine series: series VI, VII, VIII and IX completed in 1934 - 1937, series X completed in 1937 - 1938, series XI completed in 1938 - 1941

Builders

194 Yd (Marti Yd), Leningrad, USSR

Completed

1934: No71 (iii)

1938: No141 (iv)

1939: No184 (i)

Losses

none

Transfers

USSR, 9/1944: V1 Viima (TK-70), V2 Vihuri (TK-80), V3 (TK-90)

Discardings

none

 

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

series VI: 14.9

series X: 16.3

series XI: 19.9

Length, m

19.1

Breadth, m

series VI: 3.33

series X, XI: 3.40

Draught, m

series VI: 1.20

series X: 1.02

series XI: 1.24

No of shafts

2

Machinery

series VI: GAM-34 or GAM-34BS petrol engines

series X: GAM-34BS petrol engines

series XI: GAM-34F petrol engines

Power, h. p.

series VI, X: 1700

series XI: 2000

Max speed, kts

series VI: 45

series X: 49

series XI: 52

Fuel, t

series VI: petrol 1.5

series X, XI: petrol 1.6

Armament

series VI: 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 533 TT (stern) or 3 - 4 mines or 24 DC

series X, XI: 1 x 1 - 12.7/79, 1 x 1 - 7.6/94, 2 - 533 TT (stern) or 3 - 4 mines or 24 DC

Complement

6 - 7

Modernizing notes: none.

Fate Notes: TK-51 was captured by Finnish MTBs 17/6/1944, commissioned by Finnish navy as V3 and returned to Soviet Union in September. No64 and No141 were captured by Finnish in December 1941, commissioned them as V1 Viima and V2 Vihuri and returned in September 1944.

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