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V62 ASW motor launches

V62 1919

Names

V62 - 73

Builders

Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada

Completed

11/1918

Losses

none

Transfers

Bulgaria, 10/1921: 4 boats (Минъор <Minyor>; Взрив <Vzriv>; Кондуктор Докузанов <Konduktor Dokuzanov>; Капитан-лейтенант К. Минков <Kapitan-leytenant K. Minkov>)

Discarding

early 1920s: V62 - 73 (8 boats)

  

Displacement normal, t

41

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

23.4

Breadth, m

3.77

Draught, m

1.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Standard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

440

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/35 M1897, 2 x 1 - 8/80, 1 DCT, 1 "C" tube ASW system

Complement

16

Ship project history: Motor patrol and anti-submarine wooden-hulled boats. Boats of 4th series were ordered in Canada and arrived to Europe already after war.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Soon after Armistice almost all boats of "V" type were broken up or sold to private owners.

 

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