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MTB26 motor torpedo boats (1938)

Names

MTB26, 27

Builders

Thornycroft, Woolston: MTB26, 27

Completed

9.1938: MTB26, 27

Losses

MTB26 (26.12.1941), MTB27 (26.12.1941)

Transfers

None

Discarding

None

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

17

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.35

Draught, m

1.07

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Thornycroft petrol engines

Power, h. p.

750

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 4 - 7.7/87, 2 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Complement

5

Project history: Ex-Chinese boats were requisitioned incomplete.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

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