NMS ''Sborul'' was a

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of the

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. She was commissioned in 1920, after initially serving as ''Tb 81 T'' in the Austro-Hungarian Navy during

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. She and six more sister ships were awarded to Romania as reparations after the war ended.

Construction and specifications

A vessel of the T-group of the 250t-class, ''Sborul'' was built by STT at the

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. Under the designation ''81 T'', she was laid down on 6 February 1914, launched on 6 August that year and commissioned on 1 December. She had a

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of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . While her designed displacement was , she displaced about fully loaded. The crew consisted of 39 officers and enlisted men. Her Parsons turbines were rated at with a maximum output of , enabling her to reach a top speed of . She carried of coal and of fuel oil, which gave her a range of at . Under the provisions of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, she was given as reparations to Romania in 1920, along with six more boats of the same class. Notably, ''Sborul'' was the only Romanian torpedo boat of the

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to still have her torpedo tubes. Along with the destroyers '' Mărăști'' and ''

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'', she was the only warship of the Romanian Navy to use 450 mm torpedoes, as opposed to most of the other vessels which used 533 mm torpedoes. Her armament consisted of two 66 mm naval guns, two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and two 450 mm torpedo tubes.

Career

''Sborul'' was captured by Soviet forces in 1944 and commissioned by the Soviet Navy as ''Musson''. She was returned to Romania on 22 September 1945 and continued to serve until 1958, when she was scrapped. While fighting on the

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side during World War II, she was involved in the minelaying operation of the Bulgarian coast in October 1941.Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, ''World War II Sea War, Volume 4: Germany Sends Russia to the Allies'', p. 323 ''Sborul'' also took part in the Battle of Jibrieni on 17 December 1941.

References

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