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COASTAL FORCES

MTB259 motor torpedo boats (1940 / 1941)

MTB263 1941

Names

MTB259 - 268 (ex-PT10 - 19)

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA: MTB259-268

Completed

11 - 12.1940 // 3.1941: MTB259-268

Losses

MTB259 (14.6.1942), MTB261 (26.8.1945), MTB262 (24.2.1943), MTB264 (10.5.1943), MTB267 (2.4.1943)

Transfers

None

Discarding

to USA 3.1946: MTB260, 263, 265, 266, 268

 

Displacement standard, t

32

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

Complement

17

Project history: Ex-USN boats.

Modernizations: 1942-1943, many survived: + type 286PU radar

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

Naval service: No significant events.

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