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MTB258 motor torpedo boat (1940 / 1941)

Names

MTB258 (ex-PT9)

Builders

British Power Boat, Hythe: MTB258

Completed

1940 // 4.1941: MTB258

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

to USA 1946: MTB258

 

Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

6.30

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13600 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 7.7/87, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Complement

17

Project history: Ex-USN. Lend-lease.

Modernizations: 1942-1943, presumably: + type 286PU radar

1943-1944, presumably: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U radar

Naval service: No significant events.

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