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BADAJOZ motor torpedo boat (1930/1937)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Badajoz (ex-S1, ex-W1, ex-UZ(S)16), 4.1939- LT12

Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany: Badajoz

8/1930 // 3.1937: Badajoz

none

none

4.1944: LT12


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

40

Displacement full, t52
Length, m

26.9

Breadth, m

4.37

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Daimler-Benz BFz petrol engines / 1 Maybach S5 petrol engine for cruising

Power, h. p.

2700 / 100

Max speed, kts

34.2 / 6

Fuel, tpetrol 7.1
Endurance, nm(kts)582(22)
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 2 - 533 TT, 3 mines or 6 DCs

Complement12


Standard scale images


<i>Badajoz</i> 1937
Badajoz 1937


Project history

First German "schnellboot" S1, commissioned by Reichsmarine 7.8.1930. In civil war S1 was bought by Spanish Nationalists and transferred to them at Cadiz in March, 1937. Her petrol engines had considerable deterioration and low-level reliability.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.