 One of T2's sister ships, T3
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| History | |
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 Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | 77 T then 77 |
| Builder | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down | 24 August 1913 |
| Launched | 30 January 1914 |
| Commissioned | 11 August 1914 |
| Out of service | 1918 |
| Fate | Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| Name | T2 |
| Acquired | March 1921 |
| Commissioned | 1923 |
| Out of service | 1939 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 250t-class, T-group sea-going torpedo boat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 57.84 m (189 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 5.75 m (18 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 41 officers and enlisted |
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T2 was a seagoing torpedo boat operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1923 and 1939. Originally 77 T, a 250t-class torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy built in 1914, she was armed with two 66 mm (2.6 in) guns and four 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes, and could carry 10–12 naval mines. She saw active service during World War I, performing convoy, patrol, escort, minesweeping and minelaying tasks, anti-submarine operations, and shore bombardment missions. In 1917, the suffixes of all Austro-Hungarian torpedo boats were removed, and thereafter she was referred to as 77. The vessel was in the Bocche di Cattaro during the short-lived mutiny by Austro-Hungarian sailors in early February 1918; members of her crew raised the red flag but undertook no other mutinous actions. 77 was part of the escort force for the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought Szent István during the action that resulted in the sinking of that ship by Italian torpedo boats in June 1918.
Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, 77 was allocated to the Navy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Royal Yugoslav Navy, and was renamed T2 and had her armament upgraded. At the time, she and seven other 250t-class boats were the only modern sea-going vessels of the fledgling maritime force. During the interwar period, the navy was involved in training exercises and cruises to friendly ports, but activity was limited by reduced naval budgets. Worn out after twenty-five years of service, T2 was stricken from the naval register and scrapped in 1939.