 T5's sister ship, T3, the only significant external difference was that T5 had two funnels
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| History | |
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 Austria-Hungary | |
| Name | 87 F then 87 |
| Builder | Ganz & Danubius |
| Laid down | 5 March 1914 |
| Launched | 20 March 1915 |
| Commissioned | 28 September 1915 |
| Out of service | November 1918 |
| Fate | Assigned to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| Name | T5 |
| Acquired | March 1921 |
| Out of service | April 1941 |
| Fate | Captured by Italy |
 Italy | |
| Name | T5 |
| Acquired | April 1941 |
| Out of service | September 1943 |
| Fate | Returned to Yugoslavia |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |
| Name | T5 |
| Acquired | December 1943 |
| Out of service | May 1945 |
 Yugoslavia | |
| Name | Cer (Цер) |
| Namesake | Battle of Cer (1914) |
| Acquired | May 1945 |
| Out of service | 1963 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | 250t-class, F-group sea-going torpedo boat |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 58.76 m (192 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28–29 kn (52–54 km/h; 32–33 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 41 |
| Armament |
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T5 was a sea-going torpedo boat operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941. Originally 87 F, a 250t-class torpedo boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy built in 1914–1915, 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 and minesweeping 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 87. She 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, and rescued many of her crew.
Following Austria-Hungary's defeat in 1918, 87 was allocated to the Navy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which later became the Royal Yugoslav Navy, and was renamed T5. At the time, she and the seven other 250t-class boats were the only modern sea-going vessels of the fledgling maritime force. During the interwar period, T5 and the rest of the navy were involved in exercises of training and cruises to friendly ports, but activity was limited by reduced naval budgets. The boat was captured by the Italians during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. After her main armament was modernised, she served with the Royal Italian Navy under her Yugoslav designation, conducting coastal and second-line escort duties in the Adriatic Sea. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was returned to the Royal Yugoslav Navy-in-exile and continued serving as T5. At the end of the war, she was transferred to the new Yugoslav Navy and served as Cer in guard ship, patrol ship and training ship roles until she was stricken off the naval register in 1963 and scrapped soon after.