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MTB379 motor torpedo boat (1944)

MTB379 1944

Names

MTB379

Builders

Vosper, Portsmouth: MTB379

Completed

1.1944: MTB379

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

9.1947: MTB379

 

Displacement standard, t

39.4

Displacement full, t

47

Length, m

22.3

Breadth, m

5.92

Draught, m

1.12

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

37

Fuel, t

petrol 11400 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 4 - 450 TT, 2 DC

Electronic equipment

presumably type 291U radar

Complement

13

Project history: Experimental boat.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

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