Taisto-class motor torpedo boat
Tyrsky preserved at Forum Marinum | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Taisto class |
| Builders | Turun Veneveistämö |
| Operators | Finnish Navy |
| Completed | 8 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Retired | 7 |
| Preserved | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Motor torpedo boat |
| Displacement | 22 t (22 long tons) |
| Length | 17.8 m (58 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Isotta Fraschini petrol engines; 1,700 kW (2,300 bhp) |
| Speed | 48 knots (89 km/h; 55 mph) |
| Complement | 1+10 |
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The Taisto-class motor torpedo boats or T class was a series of motor torpedo boats, which saw service with the Finnish Navy during World War II. Following the war, the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947 prohibited the Finnish Navy from employing torpedo-carrying vessels of any kind and the Taisto class were converted into motor gunboats. By 1964, all vessels of the class had been removed from service.