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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MA/SB22 motor anti-submarine boats (1941)

MA/SB22 1941

Names

MA/SB22 - 39

Builders

British Power Boat, Hythe: MA/SB22-39

Completed

1941: MA/SB22-39

Losses

MA/SB30 (14.12.1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

1941: MA/SB22-29, 31-39

 

Displacement standard, t

23

Displacement full, t

28 - 31

Length, m

19.2

Breadth, m

5.03

Draught, m

1.02 - 1.08

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

petrol 4920 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 4 - 7.7/94, 2 DCR (10)

Sensors type 134 sonar

Complement

9

Project history: Development of previous class, 60ft BPB type.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: all survived boats served as RAF SAR craft from 1941 and sent to sale list in July 1945.

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