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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MGB68 motor gun boat (1941 / 1941)

Names

MGB68 (ex-PT6)

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MGB68

Completed

1941 // 1941: MGB68

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

to USA 1946: MGB68

 

Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

24.7

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 4 DC

Complement

17

Project history: Ex-USN MTB transferred by lend-lease.

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

Naval service: No significant events.

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