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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB418 motor torpedo boats (1942-1944/1944)

MTB418 1944

Names

MTB418 (ex-MGB81)

MTB432 (ex-MGB109)

MTB433 (ex-MGB114), 1948- RJ2, 1951- Jachthond, 1953- P884 Jachthond

MTB436 (ex-MGB112)

MTB437 (ex-MGB113)

Builders

British Power Boat, Hythe, UK

Completed

4/1942 - 2.1943 // spring 1944: MGB418, 432, 433

3-5/1944 // spring 1944: MTB436, 437

Losses

None

Transfers

United Kingdom, 1946: MTB418, 432, 436, 437

Discarding

1955: P884

 

Displacement standard, t

37

Displacement full, t

46

Length, m

21.9

Breadth, m

6.27

Draught, m

1.28 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

38 trials

Fuel, t

petrol 1250 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Electronic equipment

type 291U radar

Complement

12 - 17

Project history: 70-ft BPB design. Former MGBs, transferred to Dutch Navy in the spring of 1944 to form the second Dutch MTB flotilla. In the Dutch sources presence of torpedo arms on boats doubting expresses.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

MTB488 1944

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