home

fighting ships of the world

ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB307 motor torpedo boats (1942 / 1942)

MTB315 1942

Names

MTB307 - 316 (ex-PT49 - 58)

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA: MTB307-316

Completed

1 - 3.1942 // 1 - 3.1942: MTB307-316

Losses

MTB308 (14.9.1942), MTB310 (14.9.1942), MTB311 (2.5.1943), MTB312 (14.9.1942), MTB314 (14.9.1942, German RA10), MTB316 (14.7.1943)

Transfers

None

Discarding

to USA 9 - 10.1945: MTB307, 309, 315

to USA 1947: MTB313

 

Displacement standard, t

45

Displacement full, t

54

Length, m

23.5

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

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 2.4, 1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Sensors SO radar

Complement

17

Project history: Ex-USN boats. PT59 - 68 (estimated MTB317 - 326) were never transferred from USN.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2008-10