Profile drawing of Balte
107 tDisplacement
40,00 mLength
21 knSpeed
1901Service status

Wartime history

Capture and fate

Among the old Norwegian torpedo boats that were captured by German troops after the invasion, was a group of four ships, based on a German Schichau design. The Norwegian Silid was scuttled by its own crew in May 1940, but raised and recommissioned by the Germans in August 1940 as Balte. Because of its bad maintenance state, it was decommissioned in July 1944 and scrapped in 1945.

Ship data

Technical profile

Dimensions, weapons and machinery.

Dimensions

Displacement
107 t
Length
40,00 m
Beam
4,90 m
Draft
2,10 m

Armament

Main battery
2 x 3,7 cm
Additional guns
1-2 MG
Torpedo tubes
2 x 45,7 cm torpedo tubes
Depth charges
6 depth charges

Performance

Machinery and speed
1100 shp, 21 kn

Service record

Construction record

Laid down
Marinens Hovedverft. Horten 1900
Launched
30.07.1900
Commissioned
1901
Fate
scrapped 1945