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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

COASTAL FORCES

AB1 motor launches (1943-1944/1946)

AB1 1946

Names

AB1 (ex-ML386)

AB2 (ex-ML584)

AB3 - 5 (ex-ML836 - 838)

AB6 (ex-ML842)

AB7 (ex-ML862)

AB8 (ex-ML863)

Builders

Johnson & Jago, Leigh on Sea, UK: AB2

Thomas Cook, Cairo, Egypt: AB7, 8

Anglo-American Nile Tourist Co., Cairo, Egypt: AB1, 3 - 6

Completed

1943 // 7.1946: AB1 - 3, 6

1944 // 7.1946: AB4, 5, 7, 8

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1970 - 1973: AB1 - 8

 

Displacement standard, t

75.5

Displacement full, t

85.6

Length, m

34.8

Breadth, m

5.59

Draught, m

1.45 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk 1.2, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Electronic equipment

type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement

16

Project history: Patrol launches of Fairmile B type transferred to Turkey after service under British flag.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

AB2 1948

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