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MGB510 motor gun boat (1943)

MGB510 1945

Names

MGB510 (ex-MTB510)

Builders

Vosper, Portsmouth: MGB510

Completed

12.1943: MGB510

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

9.1947: MGB510

 

Displacement standard, t

75

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

30.6

Breadth, m

5.79

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

36.5

Fuel, t

petrol 24300 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Sensors

type 291U radar
Complement 20

Project history: Experimental boat. Never operational.

Modernizations: 4.1945: - 1 x 1 - 40/39; + 1 x 1 - 57/43 6pdr 7cwt QF Mk II

Naval service: No significant events.

MGB510 1945

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