MTB49
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Names |
MTB24 - 25 MTB28 MTB49 - 56 |
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Builders |
Thornycroft, Woolston: MTB24-25, 28, 49-56 |
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Completed |
12/1939: MTB24 1-7/1940: MTB25, 28 4-12/1941: MTB49 - 56 |
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Losses |
MTB28 (7.3.1941) |
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Transfers |
Norway 1941 - 1942: MTB50, 51, 53, 54, 56 (all returned 1942) |
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Discarding |
1943: MTB49 - 56 10/1945: MTB24, 25 |
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Displacement standard, t |
37 |
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Displacement full, t |
43 MTB49 - 56: 52 |
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Length, m |
22.6 MTB49 - 56: 23.0 |
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Breadth, m |
5.05 MTB49 - 56: 5.18 |
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Draught, m |
1.00 deep load |
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No of shafts |
3 MTB49 - 56: 2 |
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Machinery |
2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines MTB49 - 56: 4 Thornycroft petrol engines |
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Power, h. p. |
3450 MTB49 - 56: 2600 |
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Max speed, kts |
42.7 on trials MTB49 - 56: 25.3 - 29 on trials |
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Fuel, t |
petrol 8410 - 9090 l |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 1 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC or 4 mines |
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Complement |
10 - 12 |
Project history: Wooden hull.
Modernizations: 1942, MTB24, 25: were re-engined with 3 Packard engines (3600hp)
1943-1944, may be some: + type 291U radar
1943 - 1945, MTB24, 25: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV
Naval service: 1943: MTB49 - 56 were converted to aircraft target tugs Meggido, Menin, Messines, Marne, Mons, Montaubn, Morval and Nablus.
MTB50 1941
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