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LAKS 1st class torpedo boats (1900-1901)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Laks     MV Horten   12.7.1900 1900 captured by Germanu 9.4.1940 (Admiral Deinhard), returned 5.1945, BU 1945
Sild     MV Horten   30.7.1900 1900 scuttled 5.5.1940
Sæl     MV Horten   25.9.1901 1901 sunk 18.4.1940
Skrei     MV Horten   31.10.1901 1901 scuttled 8.5.1940, returned 5.1945, BU 1945


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

83

Displacement full, t

107

Length, m

38.5

Breadth, m

4.80

Draught, m

1.10 fore 2.15 aft

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1150

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

coal 17

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

23



Standard scale images


nearly sister-ship<i> Hval</i> 1905
nearly sister-ship Hval 1905
nearly sister-ship <i>Storm</i> 1940
nearly sister-ship Storm 1940


Project history

The design of Schichau was created on the basis of German torpedo boat S67. By 1940 survived ships made about 17.5kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Laks 9.4.1940 was captured in Trondheim by German troops and commissioned by Germans as Admiral Deinhard. After war she was returned to Norway and BU in 1945. Sæl 19.4.1940 was sunk by two German MTBs in Hardangen-fjord. Subsequently she was salvaged by Germans and after repair commissioned as NH03. Sild was scuttled by crew 5.5.1940 at Svane island. Subsequently she was salvaged by Germans and commissioned as Balte. Skrei was scuttled by crew in the Frej-fjord at Kristiansand. She was salvaged by Germans and commissioned under name NH01. After war she was returned to Norway.