| Yugoslav torpedo boat T9 | |
|---|---|
 The ship as 60 T, some time between 1914 and 1919. | |
| Career (Austria-Hungary) |  |
| Name: | Schwalbe |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down: | September 1906 |
| Launched: | 4 September 1907 |
| Struck: | 1924 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1928 |
| Career (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) |  |
| Name: | T9 |
| Acquired: | September 1919 |
| Struck: | 1924 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Kaiman-class torpedo boat |
| Displacement: | 203 tonnes (200 long tons; 224 short tons) |
| Length: | 56.9 metres (187 ft) |
| Beam: | 5.40 metres (17.7 ft) |
| Draught: | 1.40 metres (4 ft 7 in) |
| Speed: | 26.2 knots (48.5 km/h; 30.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 38 |
| Armament: |
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The Yugoslav torpedo boat T9 was an ocean going torpedo boat used by the Royal Yugoslav Navy in 1919-1924. It was originally built by Austria-Hungary as the Schwalbe, a ship of the Kaiman class.[1] On 1 January 1914 it was renamed to 60 T in accordance with an order from 19 November 1913 that all torpedo-boats in service should have number and letter designations, rather than their names.[2] It was sold to Yugoslavia after the end of World War One in September 1919.[1] It was stricken from the Royal Yugoslav Navy in 1924,[3] and broken up in 1928.[1]
History[]
Construction[]
Schwalbe was built in the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipbuilding facility in Trieste, Austria-Hungary for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. It was laid down on 14 September 1906, and launched on 8 April 1907 and was completed on 20 March 1909.[4] It was 56 metres (183 ft 9 in) long at the waterline and 54.9 metres (180 ft 1 in) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 5.5 metres (18 ft 1 in) and a draught of 1.3 metres (4 ft 3 in). Displacement was 209–211 t.[5]
Two Yarrow three-drum boilers fed steam to a four-cylinder vertical triple expansion engine rated at 3,000 indicated horsepower (2,200 kW) and driving one propeller shaft. This gave a speed of 26.2 knots (48.5 km/h; 30.2 mph).[4][6] The ship had a crew of 31–38 and was built with an armament of four QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and three 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes. A single machine gun was added in 1915, and it was planned to replace one torpedo tube by a Škoda 66 mm (2.6 in) L/30 gun in 1918, although it is unclear whether this was done.[4][6]
Austria-Hungary[]
On 19 November 1913 it was ordered that the torpedo-boats give up their names and instead be known by a number, with the ships having a suffix number representing the ships builder. Schwalbe was renamed 60 T[lower-alpha 1] on 1 January 1914.[4][6] In August 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, 60 T was a member of the 6th Torpedo craft division of the 2nd Torpedo craft flotilla.[7]
References[]
- ↑ "Fate of Austro-Hungarian Warships". http://www.gwpda.org/naval/ahfate.htm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Greger 1976, p. 55
- ↑ Greger 1976, p. 54
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 339
- ↑ Greger 1976, p. 12
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Greger, René (1976). Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-0623-2.
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