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COASTAL FORCES

Fairmile D motor torpedo boats (1944-1945)

MTB748 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
MTB726     Dickie, Bangor, UK     3.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB727     S. B. Hall, Galmpton, UK     2.1944 to UK 6.1945
MTB735     Tough Bros., Teddington, UK     2.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB736     Tough Bros., Teddington, UK     4.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB743     Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea, UK     4.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB744     Risdon Beazley, Northam Bridge, UK     3.1944 to UK 5.1944
MTB745     Austins, London, UK     1.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB746     James A. Silver, Rosneath, UK     5.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB748     Wm. Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK     2.1944 to UK 5.1945
MTB797     Dickie, Tarbert, UK     1.1945 to UK 5.1945

Displacement standard, t

102

Displacement full, t

118

Length, m

35.1

Breadth, m

6.48

Draught, m

1.42 - 1.50 deep load

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

29

Fuel, t

petrol 22700 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 4 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Electronic equipment

type 291U or type 293 or type 268U or SO radar

Complement

30

Project history: Fairmile "D" class boats, very successful design.

Modernizations: late 1944 - early 1945, some boats: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015