Swedish Royal Navy torpedo boat T38 (1954)
Swedish Royal Navy torpedo boat T38 in full speed (1954). At the time she was the fastest warship in the world (51.6 knots recorded in1956). My colorization of an image in the Maritime Museum of
Sweden archive (Digital Museum). (With regard to the color of the boat, I took some "artistic" liberty.)
Marinmuseum in Karlskrona has this information:
"The T38 is one of the Naval Museum's smallest museum ships but it is perhaps the nicest. She was built at the Kockum's mechanical showroom in Malmö and was launched in July 1951. The T38 is one of the 10 motor torpedo boats, in the so-called T 32 class, which was ready in the early 1950s.
With a weight of 40 tonnes, a length of 23 meters and a width of 5.5 meters, she was a small warship. With her three W18 motors, her combined power amounts to an impressive 4,500 horsepower. Such motors are not completely fuel-efficient, however, and the T38 tank space could save up to 10,000 litres when the ship was in the marine service.
The T38 was and still is extremely fast. In a speed test carried out in 1956, the vessel reached a speed of an impressive 51.6 knots, making it the world's fastest warship at that time."
Swedish Royal Navy torpedo boat T38 (1954)
Swedish Royal Navy torpedo boat T38 in full speed (1954). At the time she was the fastest warship in the world (51.6 knots recorded in1956). My colorization of an image in the Maritime Museum of
Sweden archive (Digital Museum). (With regard to the color of the boat, I took some "artistic" liberty.)
Marinmuseum in Karlskrona has this information:
"The T38 is one of the Naval Museum's smallest museum ships but it is perhaps the nicest. She was built at the Kockum's mechanical showroom in Malmö and was launched in July 1951. The T38 is one of the 10 motor torpedo boats, in the so-called T 32 class, which was ready in the early 1950s.
With a weight of 40 tonnes, a length of 23 meters and a width of 5.5 meters, she was a small warship. With her three W18 motors, her combined power amounts to an impressive 4,500 horsepower. Such motors are not completely fuel-efficient, however, and the T38 tank space could save up to 10,000 litres when the ship was in the marine service.
The T38 was and still is extremely fast. In a speed test carried out in 1956, the vessel reached a speed of an impressive 51.6 knots, making it the world's fastest warship at that time."