MAZUR torpedo boats (1915 / 1921)

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TORPEDO SHIPS

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mazur (ex-V105)		353	Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1914	26.8.1914	1.1915 // 9.1921	TS 1931, sunk 1.9.1939
Kaszub (ex-V108)		358	Vulcan, Stettin, Germany	1914	12.12.1914	3.1915 // 9.1921	internal explosion 20.7.1925

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	340
Displacement full, t	421
Length, m	62.0 wl 62.6 oa
Breadth, m	6.22
Draught, m	2.54
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 60 + oil 16
Endurance, nm(kts)	1400(17)
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18, 2 x 1 - 7.9/92, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	60

Standard scale images

Mazur 1921

Mazur 1935

Project history

In 1921 Poland received two torpedo boats of former German Navy V105 and V108. In due time these ships have been ordered in Germany by Dutch Navy (a class included four ships), but after the beginning of the First World War they were confiscated and commissioned by Kaiserliche Marine. Mazur in 1931 was rebuilt to gunnery drill ship.

Modernizations

both ships were armed only with 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss and 2 x 1 - 7.7/87 till 1924

1931, Mazur: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 75/35 M1915-18

1935, Mazur: one boiler room with two boilers was removed (~2800hp, 20kts); - 1 x 1 - 75/35; + 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76

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