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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

COASTAL FORCES

P1 motor launches (1939-1940)

P5 1940

Names

P1 - 8

Builders

Marine Etablissement te Soerabaja, Java: P1 - 8

Completed

1939 - 1940: P1 - 8

9/1945: P1 (2nd time), P4 (2nd time)

Losses

P1 (3/1942), P2 (3/1942), P3 (3/1942), P4 (3/1942), P5 (3/1942), P6 (3/1942), P7 (3/1942), P8 (3/1942)

Transfers

Indonesia, 1950: P1, 4

Discarding

None

 

Displacement standard, t

23

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

P1-4: 15.9

P5-8: 18.5 pp

Breadth, m

P1-4: 4.00

P5-8: 3.70

Draught, m

P1-4: 1.32

P5-8: 1.15

No of shafts

P1-4: 1

P5-8: 2

Machinery

P1-4: 1 Werkspoor diesel

P5-8: 2 Buda Lanova diesels

Power, h. p.

P1-4: 110

P5-8: 300

Max speed, kts

P1-4: 12

P5-8: 12.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94

Complement

10

Project history: Patrol and guard boats which were a part of the Gouvernementmarine, type "P" were slow-speed, and type "S" were fast. Built on colonial shipyards under own projects, slightly improved from a series to a series.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: All boats were lost or have been destroyed by crews during time of Japanese offensive. Later Japanese had been salvaged and commissioned P1, 4. Both in 1945 were returned to the Netherlands and, presumably, in 1950 — 1951 were transferred to Indonesia.

Many thanks to Stanislav Zaplatin for correction of information on this page.

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