Soviet torpedo boat "Komsomolets" is a small high-speed military mine-artillery ship, designed to deliver torpedo attacks on enemy ships in the coastal sea zone. Due to the design features and high tactical-technical parameters, ships of this type can be used for other purposes: conducting amphibious operations, conducting naval reconnaissance and setting minefields.
History of the creation and development of the project Komsomolets torpedo boats
The task of designing a new torpedo boat for the Russian Navy in 1939 was received by a group of designers of plant No. 194. Design work was headed by P.I. Taptygin. The new torpedo boat received a factory index - project 123. The main goal that was set before the Soviet designers was to create a more powerful warship that could replace the G-5 torpedo boats, which formed the basis of the domestic mosquito fleet.
The lead ship of the project 123 was laid in July 1939 at the shipyard of the Leningrad Plant No. 194. In October 1940 the ship entered service, and in March 1941 a new torpedo boat was enlisted in the Black Sea Fleet ship structure.
Subsequently, work began on improving the project. As a result, a whole family of torpedo boats, 123bis, M-123bis, and 123K, appeared in different years, produced by Soviet shipyards.
In total, during the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet shipbuilders transferred 30 units of various modifications to the fleet. In the years 1946-48, another 88 torpedo boats of various types were manufactured.
Tactical and technical characteristics of torpedo boats "Komsomolets"
- Displacement - 20.5 tons.
- Length - 18.7 m, width - 3.44 m, draft - 1.0 m.
- Two 1200 hp petrol engines
- Full speed - 48 knots.
- Sailing distance - 240 miles.
- Armament: two 450-mm torpedo tubes, two twin 12.7-mm anti-aircraft guns DShK, 6 depth bombs "BM-1".
- Crew - 7 people.
Torpedo boats "Komsomolets" were used in hostilities in the Black Sea and the Baltic during the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. In the postwar period, in the 50s, part of the torpedo boats of this type was transferred to the People's Republic of China. As part of the PLA naval forces, torpedo boats were used during the Vietnamese-Chinese armed conflict in the South China Sea. A small number of Komsomolets boats were transferred to USSR-friendly political regimes.
Photo of the boat
