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PTC1 motor submarine chasers (1941)

 

Names

PTC1 - 12

Builders

ELCO, Bayonne: PTC1-12

Commissioned

2 -3/1941: PTC1 - 12

Losses

none

Transfers

United Kingdom, 4 - 7.1941: PTC1 - 12: (MGB82 - 93)

Discarding none

 

 

Displacement standard, t

32

Displacement full, t

40

Length, m

21.3

Breadth, m

6.07

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (24)

Complement

17

 

Project history: PTC boats were built in MTB hulls for ASW service. Wooden hulls, 70ft ELCO design. Additional identical PTC13-36 (built by ELCO), PTC37-66 (built by Trumpy, Gloucester City) and RPC1-50 (built by Miami SB) were built for Soviet Union.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

PTC4 1941

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