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MTB41 motor torpedo boats (1940 - 1942)

MTB41

Names

MTB41 - 48

MTB201 - 212

MTB246 - 257

Builders

White, Cowes: MTB41-48, 201-212, 246-257

Completed

11-12/1940: MTB41, 42

1-11/1941: MTB43 - 48, 201

1-12/1942: MTB202 - 212

5-10/1942: MTB246 - 257

Losses

MTB41 (14.2.1941), MTB43 (7.8.1942), MTB44 (15.6.1942), MTB47 (17.1.1942), MTB201 (15.6.1942), MTB248 (6.6.1944), MTB255 (14.2.1945)

Transfers

Netherlands, 3-8/1942 (returned 9.1944): MTB202, 204 (Kemphaan, Valk)

Netherlands, 3.1942: MTB203 (Arend)

Discarding

circa 1945 - 1946: MTB246, 247, 249 - 254, 256, 257

11-12/1944: MTB42, 45, 46, 48, 205, 207 - 212

7/1945: MTB206

1947: MTB202, 204

 

Displacement standard, t

37 - 40.5

Displacement full, t

43.6 - 49

Length, m

22.0 - 22.1

Breadth, m

5.54 - 5.84

Draught, m

1.21 - 1.26 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Hall Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2700

Max speed, kts

28 - 29.5 trial

Fuel, t

petrol 9090 - 11560 l

Endurance, nm(ts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 533 TT, 2 - 4 DC

Sensors

completed 1942: type 286U or type 286PU radar

Complement

12

Project history: Wooden hull.

Modernizations: 1942: all survived boats were re-engined with 3 Sterling engines (3600hp, 36kts)

1942, many completed 1940-1942: + type 286PU radar

1943 - 1944, all survived: - 1 x 2 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

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

1/1946: 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk XII, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 - 533 TT, 4 DC, type 291U radar

Naval service: No significant events.

 

MTB208 1940

 

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