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Re: Captured torpedo boats
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: February 11, 2017 08:37PM

I think I know the photos you mentioned. They show the Bulgarian motor torpedo boats "No 5", "No 6" and "No 7".

You correctly recognized their British origin as they were built as boats of the TM-51 class for the Royal Netherlands Navy at the Scheepswerf Gusto in Schiedam in license of the British Power Boat Company type PV. Several incomplete boats of this type were captured by the Germans in May 1940, who completed and commissioned two (S-201 ex TM-52 & S-202 ex TM-53) but found them not suitable for their needs and transferred both to the Bulgarian Navy, serving as "No 4" and "No 5" after August 1941. In the summer of 1943 two more boats of this type ("No 6" and No 7") were commissioned in the Bulgarian Navy, presumably the former S-209 (ex TM-68) and S-210 (ex TM-69).

Apparently they did not see much action and were all seized by the Soviet Navy on 9 September 1944, serving in the Black Sea Fleet until the 1960's as TK-961 to TK-964.

Best regards
Rainer

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