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GIS0001 motor torpedo boats (1943 - 1944 / 1948 - 1951)

GIS0001 1948

Names

GIS0001 (ex-PT388), 4.1951- GIS811, 11.1952- MS811, 1.1954- P461 MS461

GIS0002 (ex-PT389), 4.1951- GIS812, 11.1952- MS812, 1.1954- P462 MS462

GIS0003 (ex-PT391), 4.1951- GIS813, 11.1952- MS813, 1.1954- P463 MS463

GIS0004 (ex-PT390), 4.1951- GIS814, 11.1952- MS814, 1.1954- P464 MS464

GIS0005 (ex-PT393), 4.1951- GIS831, 11.1952- MS831, 1.1954- P431 MS431

GIS0006 (ex-PT394), 4.1951- GIS832, 11.1952- MS832, 1.1954- P432 MS432

GIS0007 (ex-PT398), 4.1951- GIS833, 11.1952- MS833, 1.1954- P433 MS433

GIS0008 (ex-PT397), 4.1951- GIS823, 11.1952- MS823, 1.1954- P423 MS423

GIS0011 (ex-PT396), 4.1951- GIS834, 11.1952- MS834, 1.1954- P434 MS434

GIS0012 (ex-PT386), 4.1951- GIS854, 11.1952- MS854, 1.1954- P454 MS454

GIS0013 (ex-PT392), 4.1951- GIS822, 11.1952- MS822, 1.1954- P422 MS422

GIS0017 (ex-BPT68), 4.1951- GIS821, 11.1952- MS841, 1.1954- P421 MS421

GIS0028 (exx-PT399), 4.1951- GIS824, 11.1952- MS824, 1.1954- P424 MS424;

Builders

Robert Jacob, New York, USA: GIS0001-0008, 0011-0013, 0028

Annapolis Yacht, USA: GIS0017

Commissioned

12/1943 // 4.1948: GIS0017

1-12/1944 // 2-7/1948: GIS0001-0008, 0011, 0013, 0028

1944 // 1951: GIS0012

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1958: MS421, 423, 433, 454

1959: MS424, 434, 461, 464

1960: MS422, 462, 463

1961: MS431, 432

 

Displacement standard, t

33

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

22.1

Breadth, m

5.87

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3375

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 11200 l

Endurance, nm(kts)

570 (20)

Armament

5 x 1 - 20/65 Breda M1940, 2 - 450 TT

Electronic equipment

SO or SCR-517A radar

Complement

10 - 12

 

Project history: USN 72ft Vosper type (GIS0017 was ex-British MTB transferred under lend-lease).

 

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: No significant events.

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