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MTB100 motor torpedo boat (1938)

Names

MTB100 (ex-MMS51)

Builders

British Power Boat, Hythe: MTB100

Completed

4.1938: MTB100

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

controlled target CT11 from 1943: MTB100

 

Displacement standard, t

18

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

18.3

Breadth, m

4.04

Draught, m

0.86 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Napier petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1650

Max speed, kts

35.3 - 38 on trials

Fuel, t

petrol 4360 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 6 DC

Complement

9

Project history: MTB100 was converted from experimental minesweeper MMS51 in 1940. Never operational.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

MTB100

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