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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB1 motor launches (1942)

Names

P311 MTB1, 1983- Dalgiç 1

P312 MTB2, 1983- Dalgiç 2

P313 - 320 MTB3 - 10

Builders

Gölcük Tersanesi: MTB1 - 10

Commissioned

1942: MTB1 - 10

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1983: P311

1987: P320

2004: P312, 315

2011: P313, 314, 316-319

  

Displacement standard, t

70

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.8

Breadth, m

4.20

Draught, m

2.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV or 1 x 1 - 12.7/90

Complement

8

Project history: Patrol boats and torpedo recovery vessels. In literature they are often wrongly called as MTBs.

Modernizations: 1983, MTB2 - 9: converted to minehunting diving tenders.

Naval service: No significant events.

MTB9 1949

MTB6 1995 as minehunting diving tender

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