MTB715 1943
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| MTB618 (ex-MGB618) | P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK | 6.1942 | wrecked 10.11.1944, CTL | ||||
| MTB619 (ex-MGB619) | Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK | 8.1942 // 11.1942 | to UK 7.1944 (MTB619) | ||||
| MTB620 (ex-MGB620) | Dickie, Bangor, UK | 9.1942 // 11.1942 | to UK 8.1943 (MTB620) | ||||
| MTB623 (ex-MGB623) | Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn., UK | 8.1942 | to UK 1.1945 (MTB623) | ||||
| MTB625 (ex-MGB625) | Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK | 9.1942 | wrecked 8.2.1944 | ||||
| MTB626 (ex-MGB626) | Tough Bros., Teddington, UK | 7.1942 | scuttled after a fire 22.11.1943 | ||||
| MTB627 (ex-MGB627) | P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK | 10.1942 | to UK 1.1945 (MTB627) | ||||
| MTB631 (ex-MGB631) | Wm. King, Burnham, UK | 8.1942 | captured by Germany 14.3.1943 (S631) | ||||
| MTB653 (ex-MGB653) | Alex Robertson, Sandbank, UK | 3.1943 | to UK 1.1945 (MTB653) | ||||
| MTB688 (ex-MGB688) | Dickie, Tarbert, UK | 7.1943 // 8.1943 | to UK 1.1945 (MTB688) | ||||
| MTB704, 1946- Ørn | Wm. Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK | 11.1943 // 12.1944 | stricken 1951 | ||||
| MTB709, 1946- Lom | 1950- P347 | Dickie, Tarbert, UK | 2.1944 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB711, 1946- Falk | 1950- P343 | Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad, UK | 4.1944 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB712 | Wallasea Bay Yacht Stn.,UK | 2.1944 | wrecked 26.1.1945 | ||||
| MTB713, 1946- Hauk | Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK | 12.1943 // 2.1945 | fire 23.11.1948 | ||||
| MTB715, 1946- Teist | 1950- P348 | Woodnutt, St. Helens, UK | 12.1943 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB716, 1946- Ravn | 1950- P344 | James A. Silver, Rosneath, UK | 4.1944 // 12.1944 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB717, 1946- Stegg | 1950- P345 | Dickie, Bangor, UK | 2.1944 // 9.1944 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB719, 1946- Skarv | 1950- P346 | Lady Bee, Shoreham, UK | 2.1944 // 1.1945 | stricken 1959 | |||
| MTB722, 1946- Jo | 1950- P349 | Thomson & Balfour, Victoria Saw Mills, UK | 3.1944 | stricken 1958 | |||
| MTB723, 1946- Kjeld | 1950- P350 | P. K. Harris, Appledore, UK | 4.1944 // 1.1945 | stricken 1959 |
Displacement
standard, t 102 Displacement
full, t 118 Length, m Breadth, m Draught, m No of shafts Machinery
4
Packard petrol engines Power, h. p. 4800 Max speed, kts
29 Fuel, t
petrol 22700
l Armament MTB618-620,
623, 625-627, 631, 653, 688: 1 x 1 - 40/39
QF Mk VIII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT,
2 DC
MTB704, 709, 711-713, 715-717, 719, 722, 723: 2 x 1 - 57/43
6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94,
2 - 533 TT, 2 DC Electronic equipment completed
1942-1943: type 286U or type 286PU radar most completed
1943-1944: type 291U or type 293 radar few completed
1943-1944: SO radar completed
1944-1945: type 291U or type 293 or type 268U radar Complement
35.1
6.48
1.50
deep load
4
Endurance, nm(kts)
14 - 30
Project history: British 115ft Fairmile "D" class boats, very successful design.
Modernizations: 1943-1944, most earlier: - type 286U or type 286PU radar; + type 291U or type 293 radar
late 1944, some boats: - 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 - 533 TT; + 1 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II, 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 2 - 450 TT
late 1944 - early 1945, some boats: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV
late 1940s, all survived were armed with: 1 x 1 - 57/43 Mk VII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 4 - 450 TT, 2 DC
Naval service: MTB631 ran aground at Florö 14.3.1943, abandoned and subsequently captured by Germans and commissioned by them as S631. МТВ626 was sunk at Lervik 22.11.1943 as a result of a fire. МТВ625 was wrecked in the North Sea 8.2.1944. МТВ618 was stricken after hull damages during a storm 10.11.1944. МТВ712 was wrecked off Shetland islands 26.1.1945.
Ravn 1951
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