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PT7 motor torpedo boats (1941)

PT7 1940

Names

PT7

PT8, 10.1941- YP110

Builders

Philadelphia N Yd: PT7, 8

Commissioned

2/1941: PT7, 8

Losses

none

Transfers

United Kingdom, 4.1941: PT7 (MTB271)

Discarding

late 1945?: YP110

 

 

Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

24.7

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

2

Machinery

PT7: 4 petrol engines

PT8: 2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 - 533 TT

Complement

17

Project history: Experimental MTBs designed and built by Navy.

Modernizations: 10.1941, YP110: - 2 - 533 TT.

Naval service: PT8 was reclassified as patrol craft YP110 in October 1941. Date of discarding is unknown.

PT8

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