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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB419 motor torpedo boats (1942 / 1944)

MTB419 1944

Names

MTB419 - 423 (ex-PT88, 90 - 92, 94)

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans, USA: MTB419-423

Completed

1942 // spring 1944: MTB419-423

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

to USA 1946: MTB419 - 423

 

Displacement standard, t

35

Displacement full, t

54

Length, m

23.9

Breadth, m

6.12

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

petrol 13000 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

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

Sensors

SO radar

Complement

17

Project history: Ex-USN boats. Sister-ship PT93 was transferred from USA and used for target towing.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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