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DOMINICAN NAVY (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

COASTAL FORCES

GC8 motor patrol launch (1941)

Names

GC8

Builders

Santo Domingo: GC8

Commissioned

1941: GC8

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

early 1960s: GC8

 

Displacement standard, t

28 trials

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

19.0

Breadth, m

3.66

Draught, m

1.22

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 petrol engine

Power, h. p.

200

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 7.6/90

Complement

10

Project history: Built in Dominican republic in 1941, was used also as buoy tender. Wooden hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

GC8 1951

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