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PT368 motor torpedo boats (1943-1945)

Names

PT368 - 371

Builders

Canadian Power Boat, Montreal, Canada: PT368 - 371

Commissioned

3-4/1943 - PT368 - 371

Losses

PT368 (11.10.1944), PT371 (19.9.1944)

Transfers

none

Discarding

11-12/1945: PT369, 370

 

Displacement standard, t

33

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

21.4

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.45

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4500

Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 11200 l

Endurance, nm(kts)

570 (20)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 - 533 TT

Electronic equipment

SO or SCR-517A radar

Complement

12

Project history: 70ft Canadian Power Boat type, built under license of Scott-Paine.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

Many thanks to Alex Norton for additional information

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