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ROYAL DUTCH NAVY (NETHERLANDS)

COASTAL FORCES

TM22 motor torpedo boats (1942-1943)

PT368 1943

Names

TM22 - 25

TM26, 1944- PMB26

TM27 - 32

TM32 (ex-TM34)

TM33, 1944- PMB33

TM35 - 37

Builders

Canadian Power Boat, Montreal, Canada: TM22 - 29

Fyff`s SYd, New York, USA: TM30 - 37

Commissioned

1942: TM22 - 31

1943: TM32 (ex-TM34), 33

Losses

requisitioned by USA before commission 4.1943: TM32 (PT368), TM35 - 37 (PT369 - 371)

TM25 (27.2.1943), TM27 (6.7.1943), TM31 (2.9.1944)

Transfers

None

Discarding

1943: TM23

1944: TM24, 32 (ex-TM34)

1946: PMB26, TM28 - 30, PMB33

6/1947: TM22

 

Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4200

Max speed, kts

48

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

570(20)

Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 - 450 TT, 2 DCR (8)

Complement

12

Project history: Ordered in 1941 to American and Canadian builders  for service in colonies. Repetition of TM51 type with more powerful motors. In the beginning of 1943 TM32 and 35-37 were requisitioned by Americans and commissioned by USN as PT368-371; then TM34 was renamed TM32.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Any MTB has not had time to enter service before fall of the Dutch East Indies, therefore they served mainly as aircraft rescue launches in Caribbean sea.

TM26 and 33 in 1944 were transferred to Australia where they were used as patrol boats PMB26 and 33 until discarding in May 1946.

TM30 on slipway

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