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MTB5 motor torpedo boats (1940, 1940/1941)


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MTB5 1940

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

MTB5

MTB6

MTB71

Vosper, Portsmouth, UK: MTB5, 6, 71

5/1940: MTB5, 6

7/1940 // 11.1941: MTB71

MTB5 (1.7.1941), MTB6 (29.6.1940)

UK, 2.1942: MTB71 (MTB71)

None



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

25

Displacement full, t32
Length, m18.6
Breadth, m4.67
Draught, m0.94 deep load
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines

Power, h. p.2300
Max speed, kts

41

Fuel, t

petrol 5330 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 - 450 TT, 4 DC

Complement10


Graphics


<i>MTB5</i> 1940
MTB5 1940


Project history

On the eve of war Norwegian Navy ordered 4 61ft wooden MTBs on Vosper. With the beginning of operations they were confiscated, but after German intrusion into Norway, British Government in May 1940 has transferred to new ally two of four ordered boats. Both were lost. Two MTBs of the same class were commissioned by RN as МТВ71 and МТВ72. One of RN pair, MTB71, was Norwegian-manned also a short time.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.