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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MGB40 motor gun boats (1940)

Names

MGB40 - 45 (ex-MA/SB40 - 45)

Builders

British Power Boat, Hythe: MGB40-45

Completed

1940: MGB40-45

Losses

none

Transfers

Poland, 7.1940: MGB44, 45 (S2, 3)

Discarding

1945: MGB40-43

 

Displacement standard, t

24

Displacement full, t

31

Length, m

19.2

Breadth, m

5.00

Draught, m

1.08

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Rolls-Royce petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 DC

Complement

10

Project history: ex-Swedish and Norwegian MTBs, requisitioned after war begun.

Modernizations: 1942-1943, most survived: + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service: No significant events.

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