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COASTAL FORCES

MTB71 motor torpedo boats (1940)

Names

MTB71, 72

Builders

Vosper, Portsmouth: MTB71, 72

Completed

7/1940: MTB71, 72

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

to War Dept. 6-7/1943: MTB71, 72

 

Displacement standard, t

25

Displacement full, t

32

Length, m

18.6

Breadth, m

4.67

Draught, m

0.94 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2300

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 5330 l

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement

10

Project history: Ex-Norwegian 61ft boats, requisitioned on stocks. Wooden hull.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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