T13, T15 and T17 transfer to Rotterdam.
85,2 mOverall length
1098 tMaximum displacement
36,6 knMaximum speed
119-155Complement
Design and service
The story of Torpedoboot T17
T17 (1944) Torpedoboot T17 was part of the 3rd TFlottila after commissioned. Transferred to Rotterdam in January 1942 to participate in Operation Cerberus. On 19 March 1942, T17 escorted the CA Admiral Hipper to Norway. After returning to Germany it was sent to France between October 1942 and mid 1943.
From this time the torpedo boat was used in the torpedo school in the Baltic Sea. At the end of 1944 it was put into active service again and was used for escort duty. Taken over by the Soviets after the war, it entered Soviet Fleet lists on 5 November 1945. Manned by a Russian crew on 15 January 1946 it arrived in Libau two days later and was renamed to Poryvisty on 15 February 1946.
Until 24 December 1955 it was part of the North Baltic fleet, since 25 June 1949 as a target control ship and renamed to UC-6 on 27 September 1946. On 30 December 1959 it was removed from the Navy lists and disbanded on 6 February 1960.
Operational history
Service timeline
T13, T15 and T17 are relocated to Dunkirk.
Operation "Cerberus": On board of Z29, the "Füher der Zerstöer" and the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Paul Jakobi, Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Ihn, Z25 and the torpedo boats T2, T4, T4, T11, T12, T13, T15, T16, T17 Seeadler, Kondor, Jaguar, Falke and iescort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the Channel from Brest ot Germany.
The torpedo boats T9, T12, T17 and T18 are sent from Germany to Brest.
T9, T17, T18 and T19 support the unsuccessful search for the blockade runner Wismar.
T9, T12, T17 and T18 sail into the Biscay to recover the blockade runner Kumerland.
At a glance
Technical profile
Dimensions, armament, protection and performance.
Dimensions
- Size (Max)
- 1098 t
- Length (Total)
- 85,2 m
- Length (Waterline)
- 82,0 m
- Beam
- 8,87 m
- Draft
- 3,14 m
- Crew
- 119-155
Armament
- 10,5 cm L/45 C/32
- 1
- 3,7 cm
- 1 (since 1944)
- 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
- 5-12
- 53,3 cm Torpedo tubes
- 6 (3 since 1944)
- Mines
- 30
Machinery
- Shafts
- 2
- Turbines
- 2
- Type
- Wagner Geared Turbines
Performance
- Total Performance
- 34110 shp
- Speed
- 36,6 kn
- Range
- 1400 sm at 19 kn
Construction record
Torpedoboot T17
- Laid down
- Schichau Elbing, 1939
- Launched
- 13.03.1940
- Commissioned
- 28.08.1941
- Fate
- scrapped after 1960
- Cost
- 9,3 Mio Reichsmark