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"THORNYCROFT" type torpedo boats (615-GO) (1920)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

第615汽艇[615-go]

ii

iii

第1149汽艇[1149-go]

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: 4 boats

1920: 4 boats

none

none

1938: 615-go, 2-nd, 3-rd

1940s: 1149-go (torpedo recovery vessel)



Technical data


Displacement normal, t14
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, tpetrol
Endurance, nm(kts)200(40)
Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCR (2)

Complement5


Standard scale images


<i>615-go</i> 1920
615-go 1920


Project history

Experimental boats, copies of British CMB-55 MTBs. Rated as Naikatei (launches). Wooden-hulled with a stepped keel, reached up to 43kts on trials.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.