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CS11 motor patrol boats

Names

CS11 - 14, 21 - 24 (ex-CG83316, 83317, 83350, 83351, 83384-83386, 83395), 1945- GC11 - 14, 21 - 24; CS31 - 34 (ex-C56189-56192), 1945- GC31 - 34

Builders

Wheeler, Brooklyn, USA

Commissioned

1942 // 3/1943: CS11 - 14, 21 - 23

1943 // 3/1943: CS24, 31 - 34

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding 1960s: GC11 - 14, 21 - 24, 31 - 34

 

Displacement trials, t

45

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

25.3

Breadth, m

4.88

Draught, m

1.37

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

20.5

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm (kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap DCT, 4 DCR

Sensors many boats: SO radar, sonar

Complement

10

Ship project history: Former USCG/USN 83ft-type patrol launches, transferred to Cuba by lend-lease 8 launches from USCG and 4 from US Navy. 10 boats were transferred at Havana 22/3/1943, two more 24/3/1943. Data about full correlation of American numbers with Cuban are not present, since in Cuban Navy they were renamed depending on tactical assuming, but former USN boats received numbers CS31-34.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Right after war all boats were transferred to Coast Guard, according to abbreviation replacement on GC.

GC11 1951

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