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GIS0019 motor torpedo boats (1942 / 1947)

GIS0019 1947

Names

GIS0019 (ex-PT49)

GIS0020 (ex-PT57)

Builders

ELCO, Bayonne, USA: GIS0019, 0020

Commissioned

1-3/1942 // 2.1947: GIS0019, 0020

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1948: GIS0019, 0020

 

Displacement standard, t

35

Displacement full, t

46

Length, m

23.5

Breadth, m

6.07

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 11400 l

Endurance, nm(kts)

1400 ()

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62; 2 x 2 - 7.7/83, 2 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment SO radar
Complement

17

 

Project history: USN boats of ELCO 77ft type.

 

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: In 1948 both were converted to SAR craft or Air Force.

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