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Snøgg  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Trygg			MV Moss / MV Horten	1917	31.5.1919	1920	sunk 25.4.1940
Snøgg			MV Horten	1917	2.9.1920	1921	captured by Germany 5.5.1940 (Zack)
Stegg			MV Horten	1917	16.6.1921	1923	sunk 20.4.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	220
Displacement full, t	256
Length, m	53.0
Breadth, m	5.50
Draught, m	1.80 normal 2.00 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	3500
Max speed, kts	25 Stegg: 24
Fuel, t	oil 33
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 2 x 2 - 450 TT, mines
Complement	33

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Project history

Torpedo boats were built under the project developed in design bureau of Horten N Yd and intended for operations in fjords. To the Second World War beginning they could keep only 20kts speed.

Modernizations

~1939, all: - 1 x 1 - 76/28; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II, 2 DCR (8-10)

Naval service

Snøgg was captured by German armed trawler 4.5.1940 in Florö (Sunn-fjord) and commissioned by Germans as Zack. Was lost 6.9.1943. Stegg was sunk 20.4.1940 in Hardangerfjord by gunfire of German TS Bremse. Trygg 25.4.1940 was hardly damaged by German aircraft at Aandalsnes and ran aground. In the summer of 1940 she was salvaged by Germans and commissioned them as Zick, sunk by allied aircraft 23.10.1944.