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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MGB82 motor gun boats (1941 / 1941)

MGB87 1945

Names

MGB82 - 93 (ex-PTC1 - 12)

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA: MGB82-93

Completed

2 - 3.1941 // 4 - 7.1941: MGB82-93

Losses

MGB90 (16.7.1941), MGB92 (16.7.1941)

Transfers

none

Discarding

to USA 4-9/1945: MGB82-89, 91, 93

 

Displacement standard, t

32 as designed

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 DC

Complement

17

Project history: Transferred to RN by lend-lease.

Modernizations: 1941, all survived: - 2 x 2 - 12.7/90; + 2 x 2 - 12.7/62

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

Naval service: No significant events.

MGB86

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