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PT3 motor torpedo boats (1940)

PT3 1940

Names

PT3, 4

Builders

Fisher Boat Works, Detroit: PT3, 4

Commissioned

6/1940: PT3, 4

Losses

none

Transfers

United Kingdom - 4.1941: PT3, 4 (MTB273, 274)

Discarding none

   

 

 

Displacement standard, t

25

Displacement full, t

30

Length, m

17.7

Breadth, m

4.88

Draught, m

1.32

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

place for 2 x 1 - 28/75 Mk 1, 2 - 533 TT

Complement

17

Project history: Experimental MTBs, carried no armament in the USN. Both were transferred to RN by lend-lease and used as MTBs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

PT3

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