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FINLAND

COASTAL FORCES

motor torpedo boats ordered by Higgins

Names

RB1 - 12

Builders

Higgins, New Orleans, USA

Completed

1940 - 1941 // ---

Losses

all were transferred to UK as MGB69 - 73 (ex-RB1 - 5) and MGB100 - 106 (ex-RB6 - 12)

Transfers

none

Discardings

none

 

 

Displacement standard, t

30

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

3

Machinery

petrol engines

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

in British service: 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, DC

Complement

 

Modernizing notes: none

Fate Notes: MTBs were ordered by Higgins in March 1940 but builder sold all this class to UK in June.

MGB100

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