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ROYAL SIAMESE / THAI NAVY (SIAM / THAILAND)

COASTAL FORCES

NO6 motor torpedo boats (1935-1937)

No6 1935

Names

หมายเลข 6 - 17 [No6 - 17]

Builders

Thornycroft, Hampton: No6 - 9

Bangkok DYd: No10 - 17

Completed

1935: No6 - 8

1936 - 1937: No9 - 17

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1950/53: No6, 7, 13 - 17

1954/58: No8 - 12

 

Displacement standard, t

16

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.15

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Thornycroft petrol engines / 1 Thornycroft petrol engine for cruising

Power, h. p.

950 / 30

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol 2.2

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Complement

5

Project history: Practically repetition of No1-5 MTBs, but with more powerful main engines and additional engines for cruising.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

No10 1950

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