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"19-meter" torpedo boat (1940)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

号魚雷艇 (1 unit, Gyoraitei, unnamed)

Yokohama Yacht Co., Tsurumi: 1 boat

1940: 1 boat

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none

1943: 1 boat


Technical data


Displacement normal, t18.7
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

19.0

Breadth, m

4.32

Draught, m

1.19

No of shafts3
Machinery2 94-shiki petrol engines + 1 M-gata cruising petrol engine
Power, h. p.

1800 + 60

Max speed, kts

35 / 8

Fuel, tpetrol
Endurance, nm(kts)830(8)
Armament

1 x 1 - 7.7/80, 2 - 450 TT

Complement7


Standard scale images


19m MTB 1940
19m MTB 1940


Project history

First Japanese-built MTB, type B (Otsu-Gata) lead boat. Classified as Gyoraitei. Design was developed on basis of British 55ft CMB. In essence this boat was experimental. Wooden hull, with V-shaped frames. Had auxiliary 60hp cruising engine.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.