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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

Thornycroft-built motor launches (1939)

Names

Pahlawan, 1940 - ML1102

Panglima, 1940 - ML1103

Panji

Peningat, 1940 - ML1104

(all Burma RNVR)

Builders

Thornycroft, Singapore: Pahlawan, Panglima, Panji, Peningat

Completed

1939: Pahlawan, Panglima, Panji, Peningat

Losses

Panji (1940), ML1104 (12/1942)

Transfers

none

Discarding

circa 1945: ML1102, 1103

 

Displacement standard, t

60

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

23.3

Breadth, m

4.11

Draught, m

1.45

No of shafts

3

Machinery

ML1102 - 1103: 2 Thornycroft diesels, 1 Thornycroft petrol engine

ML1104: 3 Thornycroft diesels

Power, h. p.

ML1102 - 1103: 780

ML1104: 650

Max speed, kts

ML1102 - 1103: 16

ML1104: 14

Fuel, t

ML1102 - 1103: diesel oil, petrol

ML1104: diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 1 - 7.7/87, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

 

Project history: Site-build launches for service in Singapore.

Modernizations: circa 1943, both survived: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 291U radar

Naval service: no significant events.

ML1104 1942

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