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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

COASTAL FORCES

"CMB-55 ft" type motor torpedo boats (1920)

615-go 1920

Names

615汽艇[615-go]

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1149汽艇[1149-go]

Builders

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: 4 boats

Commissioned

1920: 4 boats

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1938: 615-go, 2-nd, 3-rd

1940s: 1149-go (torpedo recovery vessel)

 

Displacement normal, t

14

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol
Endurance, nm(kts) 200(40)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT, 1 DCR (2)

Complement

5

Project history: Experimental boats, copies of British CMB-55 MTBs. Rated as Naikatei (launches). Wooden-hulled with a stepped keel, reached up to 43kts on trials.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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