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P-boat type patrol craft (1916-1918)

P40 1918

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
P11   1465 White, Cowes 1915 14.10.1915 1.1916 sold 12.1921
P12   1466 White, Cowes 1915 4.12.1915 2/1916 collision 4.11.1918
P13, 8.1917- P75   312 Hamilton, Glasgow 1915 7.6.1916 8.1916 sold 7.1923
P14   378 Connell, Scotstoun 1916 4.7.1916 1916 sold 7.1923
P15     Workman Clark, Belfast 1915 24.1.1916 1916 sold 11.1921
P16     Workman Clark, Belfast 1915 23.3.1916 1916 sold 11.1921
P17     Workman Clark, Belfast 1915 21.10.1915 1916 sold 11.1921
P18   312 Inglis, Glasgow 1915 20.4.1916 7.1916 sold 11.1921
P19   236 Northumberland SB, Howden 1915 21.2.1916 1916 sold 7.1923
P20   237 Northumberland SB, Howden 1915 3.4.1916 1916 sold 5.1923
P21   698 Russell, Aberdeen 1915 31.3.1916 1916 sold 11.1921
P22   336 Caird, Greenock 1915 22.2.1916 1916 sold 12.1923
P23     Bartram, South Dock 1915 5.3.1916 6.1916 sold 7.1923
P24   490 Harland & Wolff, Govan 1915 24.11.1915 1.1916 sold 12.1921
P25   491 Harland & Wolff, Govan 1915 15.1.1916 3.1916 sold 12.1921
P26   203 Tyne Iron Wks, Willington Quay 1915 22.12.1915 1916 sunk 10.4.1917
P27   322 Eltringham, Willington Quay 1915 21.12.1915 1916 sold 7.1923
P28     Thompson, North Sands 1915 6.3.1916 1916 sold 7.1923
P29   876 Gray, Tees 1915 6.12.1915 1916 sold 7.1923
P30   877 Gray, Tees 1915 5.2.1916 1916 sold 7.1923
P31   5 Readhead, South Shields 1915 5.2.1916 1916 sold 12.1926
P32   213 Harkness, Middlesbrough 1915 20.1.1916 1916 sold 12.1921
P33   266 Napier & Miller, Govan 1915 8.6.1916 1916 sold 12.1921
P34   533 Barclay Curle, Glasgow 1915 22.3.1916 1916 sold 12.1921
P35   341 Caird, Greenock 1916 29.1.1917 1917 sold 1.1923
P36   327 Eltringham, Willington Quay 1916 25.10.1916 1916 sold 5.1923
P37   882 Gray, Tees 1916 28.10.1916 1916 sold 2.1924
P38, 2.1925- Spey   325 Hamilton, Glasgow 1916 10.2.1917 6.1917 fishery protection vessel 2.1925, sold 12.1937
P39   314 Inglis, Glasgow 1916 1.3.1917 5.1917 sold 9.1922
P40   1480 White, Cowes 1916 12.7.1916 10/1916 sold 12.1937
P41     Bartram, South Dock 1916 23.3.1917 9.1917 sold 9.1922
P45   885 Gray, Tees 1916 24.1.1917 1917 sold 1.1923
P46   217 Harkness, Middlesbrough 1916 7.2.1917 1917 sold 10.1925
P47   6 Readhead, South Shields 1916 9.7.1917 1917 sold 10.1925
P48   7 Readhead, South Shields 1916 5.9.1917 1917 sold 5.1923
P49     Thompson, North Sands 1916 19.4.1917 1917 sold 1.1923
P50   210 Tyne Iron Wks, Willington Quay 1916 25.11.1916 12.1916 sold 12.1921
P52   1483 White, Cowes 1916 28.9.1916 12/1916 sold 5.1923
P53   543 Barclay Curle, Glasgow 1916 8.2.1917 1917 sold 2.1924
P54   544 Barclay Curle, Glasgow 1916 25.4.1917 1917 sold 2.1924
P57   326 Hamilton, Glasgow 1916 6.8.1917 11.1917 to Egypt 5.1920 (الرقيب  [Raqib])
P58   327 Hamilton, Glasgow 1916 9.5.1918 7.1918 sold 12.1921
P59   1485 White, Cowes 1916 2.11.1917 2/1918 sold 6.1938
P64   315 Inglis, Glasgow 1916 3.8.1917 11.1917 sold 4.1923

 

Displacement normal, t

613

Displacement full, t

  

Length, m

74.5

Breadth, m

7.24

Draught, m

2.44

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons or Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

3500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil 98
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 356 TT, 2 DCR (30)

many boats: 1 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 3 x 1 - 356 TT, 2 DCR (30)

P52: 2 x 1 - 102/50 BL Mk VII or 2 x 1 - 102/40 BL Mk VIII or 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/III or 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk I/II, 2 DCR (30)

Complement

50 - 54

Project history: Intended as utility destroyers, these were unorthodox craft with very low freeboard, sharply cutaway funnels and a small turning circle. A resemblance to large submarines was fostered, to give them a chance to close the range and sink by ramming or gunfire. Many were armed with single 356mm TT facing aft, as it was hoped that they might be able to cripple German surface warship if attacked during one of the many East Coast raids (these TT were removed from old torpedo boats). The numbers P 1-P 10 had already been used as pendant numbers for old battleships etc. P11-34 ordered May 1915, followed by P35-40 in February 1916, P41-54 in March 1916, P55-62 in April-May 1916 and P63 and 64 in June 1916. Ten of these were converted on the stocks and completed as PC-Boats.

Modernizations: early 1920s, some: + type 112 sonar

Naval service: P12 was sunk 4.11.1918 in collision in the English Channel. P26 was stricken by German mine 10.4.1917 off Le Havre.

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

 

 P52 1920

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