T17

Torpedo Boat

Service Data

In Service: 28 August 1941 to 1957

Production Data

Ordered:
Builder: F. Schichau GmbH, Danzig
Construction No: 1405
Laid down: 1939
Launched: 13 March 1940
Commissioned: 28 August 1941

Technical Data

Type: Torpedo boat
Class: T1 Class

Displacement: 853 tons standard. 1,098 tons full load
Length: 85.2 m
Beam: 8.87 m
Draft: 3.14 m
Propulsion: 2 × shaft geared Wagner geared turbines producing up to 34,100 shp
Propellers: 2
Speed: 36.6 knots
Range: 1,400 nautical miles at 19 knots
Crew: 155 men and officers
Armament:
1 × 10.5 cm L/45 Tbts C/32
carried 600 rounds
2 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30 after 1944
12 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
carried 2000 rounds
3 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
carried 6 rounds
30 mines
Armour
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Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:

Other: Torpedo boats
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History

Career

28 August 1941
The T17 is commissioned.

1945
The T17 is seized as a prize of war by the Russians.

1946
The T17 is renamed Porivisty.

1957
The Porivisty is broken up, and scrapped.

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Sources

German Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330

German Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X

German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378

For a complete list of sources