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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

MTB539 motor torpedo boat (1948)

Names

MTB539, 1948 - P1602 FPB1602

Builders

Saunders-Roe, Beaumaris: MTB539

Completed

1948: MTB539

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1956: P1602

 

Displacement standard, t

43

Displacement full, t

50

Length, m

21.9 pp 22.9 oa

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

1.70

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

42

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

16

Project history: Aluminium alloy hulled, convertible MTB/MGB boat.

Modernizations:  None

Naval service: No significant events.

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