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MTB102 motor torpedo boat (1940)

MTB102 1940

Names

MTB102

Builders

Vosper, Portsmouth: MTB102

Completed

5.1938, commissioned 7.1940: MTB102

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

to War Dept. 1.1943: MTB102

 

Displacement standard, t

18.6

Displacement full, t

32

Length, m

21.2

Breadth, m

4.50

Draught, m

0.97

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3150

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 4400 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 - 533 TT (2)

Complement

10

Project history: Experimental wooden-hulled boat.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: MTB102 was transferred to RAF as SAR boat in 1943.

 

MTB102 1938

 

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