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FINNISH NAVY (FINLAND)

COASTAL FORCES

VMV1 motor launches (1930)

Names

VMV1, 2

Builders

Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany: VMV1, 2

Commissioned

6/1930: VMV1, 2

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1951: VMV1, 2

 

Displacement standard, t

?

Displacement full, t

30

Length, m

23.5

Breadth, m

4.20

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Maybach petrol engines / 1 Maybach cruising petrol engine

Power, h. p.

1120 / 100

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen

Complement

8

Project history: Built in Germany, wooden-hulled. Boats were built for coast guard and submitted to Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since beginning of war they were commissioned by Navy and armed (earlier they had only light MGs).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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