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POLISH NAVY (POLAND)

COASTAL FORCES

S5 motor torpedo boats (1943-1944/1944)

Names

S5 - 10 (ex-MTB424 - 429)

Builders

White, Cowes, UK: S5 - 10

Completed

8/1943 - 2.1944 // 5 - 10.1944: S5 - 10

Losses

none

Transfers

UK, 10.1944: S5 (MTB424)

UK, 5.1945: S6 - 10 (MTB425 - 429)

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

39

Displacement full, t

47

Length, m

21.8

Breadth, m

5.49

Draught, m

1.24

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Sterling petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

39.5

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 57/43 QF Mk II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT

Electronic equipment

type 291 radar

Complement

17

Project history: British MTBs designed by White.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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