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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

COASTAL FORCES

VTB1 motor torpedo boats (1928-1929)

CMB.24A 1918

Names

VTB1 - 7

Builders

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: VTB1

A C de la Loire, Nantes: VTB2 - 7

Completed

1928 - 1929: VTB1-7

Losses

VTB1 (captured by UK 3.7.1940), VTB2 (captured by UK 3.7.1940), VTB3 (18.6.1940)

Transfers

none

Discarding

late 1930s: VTB4 - 7

  

Displacement standard, t

11

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.3

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

900

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 8.80, 2 - 400 TT

Complement

5

Project history: presumably standard Thornycroft "CMB-55" type (m. b. nearly improved).

Modernizations: None.

Fate Notes: At the outbreak of war three boats were still used for training.

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