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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MGB98 motor gun boats (1939 / 1940)

Names

MGB98 - 99 (ex-VTB11 - 12)

Builders

A c de la Loire, Nantes, France: MGB98, 99

Completed

1939 // 6.1940: MGB98, 99

Losses

MGB98 (6/1941), MGB99 (4/1945)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

28

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

20.0

Breadth, m

3.96

Draught, m

1.23

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Lorraine petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 7.5/80, 2 - 400 TT, 1 DCR (6)

Complement

 

Project history: ex-French MTBs, captured after capitulation of France.

Modernizations:  none

Naval service: No significant events.

VTB12 1939

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