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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

COASTAL FORCES

 

PT70 motor torpedo boat (1941)

 

Names

PT70, 9.1941- YP107

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans: PT70

Commissioned

6/1941: PT70

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

~1945?: YP107

 

Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t

40

Length, m

21.9

Breadth, m

6.07

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

42

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 - 533 TT

Complement

17

Project history: Prototype MTB of 76ft Higgins type.

Modernizations: 9.1941: - 4 - 533 TT; + DC.

Naval service: MTB was reclassified as patrol craft in September 1941, date of discarding is unknown.

PT70 1941

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