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RAQIB patrol craft (1917/1920)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
الرقيب  [Raqib] (ex-P57)     Hamilton, Glasgow, UK 1916 6.8.1917 11.1917 // 5.1920 discarded 1930/36


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

613

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

74.5

Breadth, m

7.20

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons or Brown-Curtis steam turbines, 2 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

3500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil 98

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 2 x 1 - 356 TT, 2 DCR (30)

Complement

50 - 54



Standard scale images


<i>Raqib</i> 1920
Raqib 1920


Project history

Former British P-boat, bought by Egypt in May, 1920.

Modernizations

None

Naval service

No significant events.