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MGB47 motor gun boats (1940)

Names

MGB47 - 48 (ex-MA/SB47 - 48)

Builders

White, Cowes: MGB47, 48

Completed

1940: MGB47, 48

Losses

none

Transfers

Poland, 8.1940: MGB47 (S1)

Discarding

1945: MGB48

 

Displacement standard, t

35

Displacement full, t

40

Length, m

22.9

Breadth, m

5.08

Draught, m

1.18 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 õ 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DC or 1 DCR (12) as ASW boat

Complement

12

Project history: ex-Polish MTBs, requisitioned after war begun.

Modernizations: 1942-1943, MGB48 (presumably): + type 286PU or type 291U radar

Naval service: No significant events.

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