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P5208 motor torpedo boats (1944 / 1945)

S208 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
P5208 (ex-S208), 1947 - FPB5208 1948- P5208 12978 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 9.1944 // 1945 to West Germany 3.1957 (UW11)
P5212 (ex-S212), 1947 - FPB5212 1948- P5212 12982 Lürssen, Vegesack, Germany   1944 10.1944 // 1945 BU 1956

 

Displacement standard, t

105

Displacement full, t

122

Length, m

34.9

Breadth, m

5.10

Draught, m

1.52

No of shafts

3

Machinery

P5208: 3 Napier-Deltic diesels

P5212: 1 Mercedes-Benz diesel + 2 Napier-Deltic diesels

Power, h. p.

9000

Max speed, kts

39

Fuel, t

diesel oil 20

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors C/28, 3 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 - 533 TT

Complement

15

Project history: Ex-German boats received by reparations.

Modernizations:  1945, P5208: was disarmed and used as surveillance craft.

Naval service: No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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