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CUBAN NAVY (CUBA)

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CS11 motor patrol boats (1942-1943/1943)

CS11 1945

Names

CS11, 12 (ex-CG83316, 83317), 1945- CG11, 12

CS13, 14 (ex-CG83350, 83351), 1945- CG13, 14

CS21 - 23 (ex-CG83384-83386), 1945- CG21-23

CG24 (ex-CG83395), 1945- GC24

CS31 - 34 (ex-C56189-56192), 1945- GC31-34

Builders

Wheeler, Brooklyn, USA

Commissioned

1942 // 3.1943: CS11 - 14, 21 - 23

1943 // 3.1943: CS24, 31 - 34

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1960s: GC12, 21 - 24, 31

1976: GC11, 13, 14, 32-34

 

Displacement standard, t

45 trials

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

25.3

Breadth, m

4.88

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

20.5

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCR

Electronic equipment many boats: SO radar, sonar

Complement

10

Project history: Former USCG/USN 83ft-type patrol launches, transferred to Cuba by lend-lease 8 launches from USCG and 4 from US Navy. 10 boats were transferred at Havana 22.3.1943, two more 24.3.1943. Data about full correlation of American numbers with Cuban are not present, since in Cuban Navy they were renamed depending on tactical assuming, but former USN boats received numbers CS31-34.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Right after war all boats were transferred to Coast Guard, according to abbreviation replacement on GC.

GC11 1951

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