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COLOMBIAN NAVY (COLOMBIA)

COASTAL FORCES

C river motor patrol boat (1930/1933)

Names

C (ex-UZ(S)19)

Builders

Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany: C

Commissioned

6/1930 // 1933: C

Losses

none

Transfers

None

Discarding

late 1940s: C

 

Displacement standard, t

10.4

Displacement full, t

14

Length, m

19.6

Breadth, m

2.90

Draught, m

0.82

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Siemens-Halske-Despujol or Deutz petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

34

Fuel, t

petrol 1.2 - 1.8
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.9/79

Complement 6 - 8

Project history: Former German MTB of LM type, completed in 1930 for trials. She was never armed under German flag, and in Coolumbian Navy boat was used as fast patrol and landing craft on rivers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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