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MTB501 motor torpedo boat (1941)

MGB501 1942

Names

MTB501 (ex-MTB-A/S501), 1942 - MGB501

Builders

Camper & Nicholson, Gosport: MTB501

Completed

2.1941: MTB501

Losses

MGB501 (27.7.1942)

Transfers

None

Discarding

None

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

95

Length, m

33.5

Breadth, m

5.94

Draught, m

1.24 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

30.3

Fuel, t

petrol 22700 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII or (1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV), 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 533 TT, 12 DC

Complement

21

Project history: Experimental boat with round-bilge hull.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

MGB501 1942

 

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