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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB275 motor torpedo boats (1942 - 1944)

MTB396 1943

Names

MTB275 - 282 (ex-BPT21-28)

MTB283 - 286 (ex-BPT49-52)

MTB287 - 306 (ex-BPT29-48)

MTB363 - 378 (ex-BPT53-68)

MTB396 - 411 (ex-PT384 - 399)

Builders

Annapolis Yacht, USA: MTB275 - 286, 363 - 378

Herreshoff, Bristol, USA: MTB287 - 294

Rob Jacob, Bay City, USA: MTB295 - 300, 396 - 411

Harbor Boat, Terminal Is, USA: MTB301 - 306

Completed

11 - 12.1942: MTB276 - 282

2 - 12.1943: MTB275, 283 - 306, 363 - 378

5 - 10.1944: MTB396 - 411

Losses

MTB284 (9.9.1943), MTB285 (9.9.1943), MTB287 (24.11.1944), MTB288 (22.7.1943), MTB371 (24.11.1944), MTB372 (24.7.1944)

Transfers

Soviet Union 1943: MTB363 - 370 (TK-221 - 223, 226 - 230)

Discarding

to USA 1947: MTB275 - 283, 286, 289 - 306, 373 - 378, 396 - 411

 

Displacement standard, t

37

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

22.1

Breadth, m

5.87

Draught, m

1.68

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3375

Max speed, kts

38.75

Fuel, t

petrol 13500 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Sensors SO radar

Complement

10 - 12

Project history: Lend-lease.

Modernizations:  1944, MTB376: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

1944, MTB378: - 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: No significant events.

MTB378

MTB306 1946

 

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