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MTB202 KEMPHAAN motor torpedo boats (1942/1942, 1942)

MTB202 Kemphaan 1942

Names

MTB202 Kemphaan

MTB203 Arend

MTB204 Valk

Builders

White, Cowes, UK: MTB202-204

Completed

3/1942 // 8.1942: MTB202 Kemphaan

3-8/1942: MTB203 Arend, MTB204 Valk

Losses

MTB203 Arend (18.5.1944)

Transfers

United Kingdom, 9.1944: MTB202 Kemphaan (MTB202), MTB204 Valk (MTB204)

Discarding

None

 

Displacement standard, t

40.5

Displacement full, t

49

Length, m

22.1

Breadth, m

5.84

Draught, m

1.26 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Sterling petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

petrol 11560 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 - 4 DC

Electronic equipment

type 286U or type 286PU radar

Complement

12

Project history: Wooden hull. Standard White`s MTBs, close on a construction to Vosper boats. MTB203 and 204 were transferred right after completion, and MTB202 was transferred from structure of British 8th MTB flotilla. In Dutch service MTBs received names of birds which, however, practically were not used.

Modernizations: 1943 - 1944, all: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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