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T201 fast attack craft (1956-1957)

T201 1965

Names

T201-205 (ex-PTS101-105)

Builders

Saunders-Roe, Beaumaris, UK: T201-205

Completed

1956-1957: T201-205

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1975: T201-205

Displacement standard, t

50

Displacement full, t

64

Length, m

20.4 pp 21.8 oa

Breadth, m

5.90

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Napier Deltic diesels

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

diesel oil 8

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

as gunboats: 1 x 1 - 114/19 Mk 1, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7

as torpedo boats: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 4 - 533 TT or 6 mines

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement

15

Project history: Interchangeable MTBs/MGBs. Of aluminium construction, with riveted skin and aluminium alloy framework. The Saunders Roe slow-speed electric drive was fitted to facilitate manoeuvring in the confined inland waters where the craft were required to operate.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

T202 1962

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