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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

COASTAL FORCES

VTB8 motor torpedo boats (1935)

Names

VTB8, 9

Builders

A C de la Loire, Nantes: VTB8, 9

Completed

1935: VTB8, 9

Losses

VTB8 (7.8.1939)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1944: VTB9 (laid up)

  

Displacement standard, t

21

Displacement full, t

28

Length, m

18.9

Breadth, m

4.90

Draught, m

1.23

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Lorraine petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

46

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

Complement

 

Project history: First French origin MTBs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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