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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

'CMB 70ft' type coastal motor boats (1919-1920)

CMB.102MT 1919

Names

CMB.100M - 101M

CMB.102MT - 104MT

CMB.105 - 111

Builders

Thornycroft, Hampton: CMB.100M, 102MT

Thornycroft, Woolston / Portsmouth DYd: CMB.101M

Camper & Nicholson, Gosport: CMB.103MT, CMB104MT

Completed

1919: CMB.100M, 101M, 102MT

1920: CMB.103MT, 104MT

1942: CMB.103MT (2nd time)

Losses

cancelled: CMB.105 - 111

Transfers

None

Discarding

1920: CMB.101M

1921: CMB.100M

1923: CMB.102MT

1928: CMB.103MT

1944: CMB.103MT (2nd time), CMB.104MT

 

Displacement normal, t

24

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

22.1

Breadth, m

4.27

Draught, m

1.07

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CMB.100M, 101M: 2 Thornycroft Y-12 petrol engines

CMB.102MT - 104MT: 2 Thornycroft Y-24 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

CMB.100M, 101M: 700

CMB.102MT - 104MT: 1400

Max speed, kts

CMB.100M, 101M: 26

CMB.102MT - 104MT: 36.6

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 2 - 7.7/94, 1 DCR (4), 7 mines or 3 -450 TT

Complement

3 - 5

Project history: Twelve minelaying CMBs were ordered in January 1918, capable of laying seven 'M Sinker' magnetic mines, or an alternative load of six torpedoes, but five were cancelled, CMB.105-111. Post-war there were a number of experimental hulls, probably part of this programme, but completed by the builders for trials work. MB.1265 was reported to have been towed from Woolston to Pembroke DYd for completion and MB.1535, building at Hampton, had triple 450MM torpedo-troughs, 3 twin Lewis MGs and DCs, and was driven by a 24-cylinder Green engine.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: CMB.102MT became depot ship Hornet in 1923 and survived the Second World War, with CMB.103MT and 104MT, but the other two were deleted in 1920-21.

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