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VTB10 motor torpedo boat (1936)

Names

VTB10

Builders

A C de la Loire, Nantes: VTB10

Completed

1936: VTB10

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1939: VTB10 (laid up)

  

Displacement standard, t

21

Displacement full, t

28

Length, m

20.0

Breadth, m

3.96

Draught, m

1.23

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hispano-Suiza petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2600

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.5/80, 2 - 400 TT, 6 DC

Complement

 

Project history: Nearly sister-boat of previous pair with experimental machinery. Because of problems with engines VTB10 never served actively.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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