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COASTAL FORCES

MTB538 motor torpedo boat (1948)

Names

MTB538, 1948 - P1601 FPB1601

Builders

Vosper, Portsmouth: MTB538

Completed

8.1948: MTB538

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1956: P1601

 

Displacement standard, t

36

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

20.7 pp 22.6 oa

Breadth, m

6.20

Draught, m

1.80

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

40

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk XII, 4 - 450 TT or 1 x 1 - 114/19 Mk I

Electronic equipment

type 268U radar

Complement

15

Project history: Wooden all-glued hull. Convertible MTB/MGB.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

MTB538 1948

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