A short film full of torpedo boat action. Follow T56 and her sisters on a journey through the Stockholm archipelago. These boats makes people clapping hands and some angry because the noise and smoke. Built in the 40s and the 50s and restored back to original makes them unique in the world to actually be fully functional even in 2022.


The motor torpedo-boat T56 was built in 1957 in a dockyard in Stockholm. T56 is part of the T42 series that comprises T42 through T56. The main supplier was the Kockums Company in Malmoe, although four ships in the series were built at the Stockholm’s Oerlogsvarv (the naval dockyard in Stockholm).
T56 was in the service of the Royal Swedish Navy until 1973 and was discarded in 1984 and then sold to a private person.
Since December 2003 T56 is owned by the Stiftelsen Motortorpedbaaten T56 (a Trust organisation) and has returned to previous home port 25 kilometres south of Stockholm at the former marine base Gaaloe. The aim of the trust is to keep the ship in its original shape and to distribute knowledge about the historical role of the motor torpedo-boat.

The motor torpedo-boat T56 has the following main characteristics:
· Hull: V-formed bottom
· Over-all length: 23 meters
· Over-all width: 5.9 meters
· Draft: 1.5 meters
· Displacement: 43 tons
· Motors: 3 CRM 18D/SS (+1650hp/each)
· Speed: 50 knots
· Crew: 16 persons
· Weapons:
- 2 torpedoes, 53 centimetres
- 1 canon, Bofors 40 millimetres, model m/36
- 2 machine guns, model m/36
- 57 millimetres flare and chaff rockets
· Radar: PS 631

See more of my Torpedo boat videos here:
Torpedo boat T56 cold start [ Ссылка ]
Restored torpedo boats hauling the seas [ Ссылка ]
Loudest cold start in the world? [ Ссылка ]
A longer film with loads of lovely engine noise and action [ Ссылка ]

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