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RA10 minesweeping boat

MTB314 1942

Names

RA10 (ex-MTB314, ex-BPT8, ex-PT56)

Builders

Elco, Bayonne, USA

Commissioned

1942 // 9/1942

Losses

RA10 (30/4/1943)

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

45

Length, m

23.5 wl 24.5 oa

Breadth, m

6.27

Draught, m

1.22

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Packard petrol engines

Power, h. p.

4050

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

petrol 8.0

Endurance, nm(kts) 240(45)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 - 533 TT, 2 DC

Complement

12 - 14

Ship project history: RA10 was former British MTB314 built by Higgins. 14/9/1942 she was sunk at Tobruk, salvaged by Germans and commissioned. Nothing is known about rearming. RA10 was used mostly as fast submarine chaser.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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